In The U.K.-EU Faceoff, Neither Side Is Blinking
British Prime Minister Theresa May appealed to her European counterparts, trying to preserve Britain's access to the EU's single market after the Brexit. But EU leaders are playing hardball.
British Prime Minister Theresa May's hopes of persuading her peers in the European Union to keep the U.K. in the bloc's single market were dashed at an informal summit in Salzburg that ended on Thursday.
She appealed for compromise to ease the United Kingdom's departure from the EU, speaking in the theater But EU leaders clearly were not feeling nostalgic.
