MAY: NO BREXIT DISCUSSIONS UNTIL ‘ OBJECTIVES ARE CLEAR’

Britain will not start exit talks with the European Union until “our objectives are clear” — and that won’t be this year, Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday, at her first meeting with an EU leader as the U. K. begins the long, uncertain process of leaving the bloc.

May met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, on her first foreign trip as Britain’s lead- er, the Associated Press reported. At a joint news conference, the two women conveyed a desire to work together but little sense of urgency, or a concrete idea of how the complex divorce process will play out.

“All of us will need time to prepare for these negotiations,” May said.