British prime minister Theresa May’s surprise general election announcement has thrown many off balance, but it is a sideshow in the ongoing Brexit circus.
EU officials were at pains this week to stress that the vote, set for 8 June, will not derail the timeline for Brexit talks by more than a couple of weeks, while taking an increasingly tough line in their draft negotiating texts for those talks.
European Council president Donald Tusk summed up the feeling on Twitter this week. “It...