<p class="title">European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said the EU is "running out" of patience with Britain over Brexit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The United Kingdom is in crisis after lawmakers three times rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed divorce deal, and now risks crashing out of the bloc in under two weeks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"With our British friends we have had a lot of patience, but even patience is running out," Juncker told Italian public TV channel Rai 1 on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I would like, in the coming hours and days, for Great Britain to reach an agreement on the way forward."</p>.<p class="bodytext">MPs held "indicative votes" last week on eight alternative Brexit options, but none of them achieved a majority.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Up to now, we know what the British parliament says no to, but we do not know what it says yes to," Juncker said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Asked about the matter of a second referendum -- an option demanded by many of those who would prefer to remain in the EU -- Juncker said that "it is something that concerns the British only".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"They have to decide which instruments they will use to reach the end of this process."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Italy's eurosceptic coalition government -- in power since last June -- believes it has not received enough support from the EU to manage migrants arriving by sea and has closed its ports.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But Juncker said the bloc has "strongly supported" Italy, giving more than one billion euros to help the Mediterranean country with "this massive flow of refugees".</p>
<p class="title">European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said the EU is "running out" of patience with Britain over Brexit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The United Kingdom is in crisis after lawmakers three times rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed divorce deal, and now risks crashing out of the bloc in under two weeks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"With our British friends we have had a lot of patience, but even patience is running out," Juncker told Italian public TV channel Rai 1 on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I would like, in the coming hours and days, for Great Britain to reach an agreement on the way forward."</p>.<p class="bodytext">MPs held "indicative votes" last week on eight alternative Brexit options, but none of them achieved a majority.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Up to now, we know what the British parliament says no to, but we do not know what it says yes to," Juncker said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Asked about the matter of a second referendum -- an option demanded by many of those who would prefer to remain in the EU -- Juncker said that "it is something that concerns the British only".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"They have to decide which instruments they will use to reach the end of this process."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Italy's eurosceptic coalition government -- in power since last June -- believes it has not received enough support from the EU to manage migrants arriving by sea and has closed its ports.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But Juncker said the bloc has "strongly supported" Italy, giving more than one billion euros to help the Mediterranean country with "this massive flow of refugees".</p>