Salzburg Summit Ended in ‘Accident’ With Theresa May, Dutch Premier Says
- EU, U.K. have 4-6 weeks to find a Brexit solution, Rutte says
- Emphasizes that Europe wants ‘strong relationship’ with U.K.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the European Union and the U.K. have the next four to six weeks to “bring it back together” in the Brexit negotiations after last week’s informal summit in Austria led to what he called an “accident” between the two sides.
In an interview at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York on Wednesday, Rutte acknowledged that the EU meeting in Salzburg was “difficult” and “somehow it ended up in an accident where both the European Union and Theresa May, the U.K., seemed to drift away a little bit and that is not OK.”