Insight: 'Mission Impossible' - Tight Brexit timeline unsettles Germans

By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and fellow European leaders are pressing the new British government to trigger divorce proceedings with the European Union as soon as possible. Further complicating the task, EU leaders have rejected the possibility of any negotiations before Britain moves on Article 50, a step which would start a two-year countdown to Brexit. Behind their stance is a desire to send a message to Britain that it cannot hold the EU hostage by horse