The U.K. Election Result Spells Bad News for the E.U., and Brexit

Europhiles in Britain awoke Friday morning with a rare feeling of optimism, hopeful that the poor electoral result for Theresa May’s Conservative Party and gains for Labour and the Liberal Democrats could mean a softer exit from the European Union, or even better, a reversal of Brexit. But for officials at the E.U. headquarters in Brussels and European leaders, May's election flop complicates yet further an inevitable process which they simply want out the way.