Merkel happy Brexit deal with Britain reached

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed a draft agreement on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union but warned that the worst case scenario would be a no-deal Brexit.

As British Prime Minister Theresa May battles to save the draft divorce deal after several ministers quit in protest, the chancellor said: "The worst case, and most disorderly, is that there is no kind of no deal."

"You have to see the alternatives and then ask: is what we have a basis? So I hope that this can be such a basis," Reuters cited Merkel as saying.

"We have a document on the table that Britain and the EU 27 have agreed to, so for me there is no question at the moment whether we negotiate further," she stressed.

"Firstly, I am very happy that after long negotiations which were not easy, a proposal has been pulled together," Merkel concluded.