Merkel's Hollow Victory Complicates May's Life and Brexit Talks
Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor
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Angela Merkel’s pyrrhic victory is bad news for U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and her hope of getting the German leader to wade into Brexit talks and help unlock negotiations.
For starters, the chancellor will be preoccupied with trying to stitch together a complicated three-way coalition. Put simply, if Brexit wasn’t a top priority before the election it is even less of one now. May’s big speech in Florence on Friday was in some measure an outreach to the 27 EU government heads -- especially the more influential ones.