Remarks from German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, speaking to Germany's Funke media group, reported via Reuters

  • "A postponement makes sense if it leads to an orderly Brexit"

Adds:

  • can only be a solution on the basis of the Withdrawal Agreement

(referring to May's deal, which has been shunned twice by the UK parliament)

  • "But it is also clear that it is especially important to us that the European elections run properly."

(referring here to May 23, the date of European Parliament elections)