On Monday 23 October, the European Commission denied comments that appeared in the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) attributed to Jean-Claude Juncker, to the effect that the Commission president described Theresa May as weakened and begging, at a dinner in Brussels on Monday 16 October between the British prime minister and the 'Article 50' negotiation team – the EU negotiator-in-chief, Michel Barnier, Juncker and his head of cabinet, Martin Selmayr.
Selmayr,...