Like any self-respecting Frenchman given the cosmic gift of Britain embarrassing itself, European Chief Negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier is looking at the results of Theresa May's malt vinegar-covered clusterfuck of an election and attempting to throw the ideal amount of Gallic shade at the dumbest Prime Minister to call an election since her predecessor.
Gunther Oettinger, Europe's budget commissioner, said it was unclear whether Brexit negotiations could begin on June 19 as planned, adding a weak British government raised the risk talks could fail to reach a deal that limited disruption when the United Kingdom leaves in March 2019.
In contrast, she said the 27 remaining European Union nations have long worked out a detailed negotiating stance for talks they would have hoped to start on June 19.
London has said it wants formal political talks between Barnier and Brexit minister David Davis to start next Monday but it since Thursday's election it has not formally committed to the date.
Asked whether he believed the election result indicated that the British were "turning their backs on Brexit", he said: "We will have to wait and see". "We need a government that can act", he told German radio.
"We are fully prepared and ready for negotiations to start", commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told reporters.
But in a catastrophic setback, the bet failed and she lost her overall majority.
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"Britain is a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, so we have a lot of shared challenges to deal with, and that's the spirit we want to carry out these negotiations in".
Guy Verhofstadt, the liberal former Belgian premier who is now the European Parliament's Brexit representative, said: "Yet another own goal, after Cameron now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated". "With a weak negotiating partner, there's a danger the negotiations will turn out badly".
Theresa May repeatedly urged voters to hand her a large majority so that she could go into talks in Brussels with the firm backing of the country and the House of Commons behind her.
On Friday, European Council president Donald Tusk warned Mrs May there is "no time to lose".
"We don't know when Brexit talks start. What the new set-up means for #Brexit we will have to wait and see", Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a tweet.
Davis said that the government had looked at contingency plans for walking away without a deal and it was an important option in order to get the best deal for Britain.
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