European Union leaders have warned Theresa May that Brexit talks could become "impossible" if she lets her "emotions get out of hand" after she launched an astonishing attack accusing Brussels of interfering in the general election.
European Council president Donald Tusk said: "These negotiations are hard enough as they are".
"At stake are the daily lives and interests of millions of people on both sides of the Channel", he added.
Mr Barnier said the rights of EU citizens in the United Kingdom after Brexit would have to be protected by the European Court of Justice, in defiance of London's demand that the court's rule should no longer apply in Britain after it leaves the bloc.
May has drawn the ire of many European leaders by taking a hard stance ahead of the negotiations, and further angered them this week by suggesting EU leaders were trying to influence an upcoming British national election - which May's party is widely predicted to win - by issuing threats about Brexit.
First results from local elections in Britain released on Friday showed a strong boost for Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party ahead of next month's Brexit-dominated legislative polls. "I will express myself in French because slowly but surely English is losing its importance in Europe and then the French will have elections next Sunday and I would like them to understand what I'm saying about Europe", he said.
European Council president Donald Tusk had appealed for discretion in the negotiations - a plea widely viewed as being aimed at European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker's office.
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"No one should be confronted with a mountain of red tape", Barnier said, two days after the European Commission circulated a draft of negotiating directives he will follow in Brexit talks that are expected to begin in June.
Ms Thornberry said: "I think, either Theresa May is deluded or paranoid, or she is being extremely manipulative and thinking she can hunt after Ukip votes by talking up some sort of battle between Britain and the rest of Europe".
A German newspaper last weekend gave a damning account of a dinner last week between Mrs May and Mr Juncker, reporting that he had told Mrs May that Brexit could not be a success. We have enough on our plate. They made a huge amount of the fact they managed to agree their Brexit negotiating guidelines in minutes.
Ms May made a decision to convene the advance poll in order to achieve a majority in the 17-seat parliament and allow her to have her hands free to negotiate the Brexit as she sees fit.
For May, the British position was "distorted by the continental press".
In addition to the some 3.2 million European citizens in the United Kingdom, privileges must also apply to frontier workers who commute to Britain, people who have worked or lived in the U.K.in the past and family members, including relatives who are not EU citizens, he said.
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