Germany’s Angela Merkel says talks with Britain on EU exit won’t be easy

(From L to R) Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande, at PGE National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, July 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Negotiations between the European Union and Britain following its decision to leave the bloc will difficult, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.

“We will have difficult negotiations with Britain, it will not be easy,” Merkel told a rally of her conservatives in eastern Germany.

“But that is why we as 27 member states must ask ‘how should our Europe look?’ And there, I think everyone can say how much bureacracy there is,” she added.