Europe Is Just Glad May Didn't Shoot Herself in the Foot Again
- EU diplomats say U.K. prime minister has lost leaders’ trust
- Egypt summit sees May return empty-handed from one-on-ones
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European Union leaders now hold Theresa May in such low esteem that their private targets for her latest summit appearance were minimal: Please, just don’t mess it up again.
Going into the meeting in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, EU diplomats said they were worried May had again allowed expectations to rise irrationally high, doing nothing to stamp on predictions she could return from Egypt with a way out of the Brexit deadlock. Diplomats heard echoes of the language British officials were using leading up to September’s summit in Salzburg, Austria, when May not only went home empty-handed, but humiliated in the process.