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THE WORLD HAS been discussing the British Prime Minister’s speech from yesterday – so what did they make of it?

Brexiteers applauded May’s speech as comprehensive and firm…

…while those against Britain leaving the EU aired their grievances that more wasn’t clarified, and focused on the stinging ending of Theresa May’s speech.

While the UK and Ireland have assessed May’s speech as ‘reasonable yet confusing’, the reaction in Germany has been slightly different:

The German newspaper Die Welt reacted strongly (and perhaps harshly) to Theresa May’s speech with the headline ‘Little Britain’, referencing the slapstick comedy show that sometimes mocked the English lifestyle.

Another German media Der Spiegel were also very critical, saying that the “British government is blind to reality” and that May repeated ‘I want’ numerous times during her speech:

And what about other European media? How did they react to Theresa May’s speech yesterday, and in particular to her warning that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’?

France

The French publication ‘Libération’ didn’t run with May’s Speech itself, instead opting for a picture and piece on Kim Kardashian’s branding alongside the question we’re all wondering: ‘Europe – the beginning or the end’ (a direct translation would be closer to: ‘the surge or the destruction’)

Italy

Italian newspaper La Repubblica ran with the headline ‘London raises a wall between them, the EU and the Common Market’.

The subhead is much more illuminating: ‘Theresa May: Out within two years will be hampered if [there is a] tax war. Scotland: it’s a catastrophe’.

Spain

El Mundo went with the headline ‘Theresa May anticipates the “clean” break with the European Union in Tuesday’s Brexit speech’, and inside listed her 12-point wishlist for the UK’s divorce from the EU.

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