Germany's Frankfurter Rundschau says that the High Court decision is "a heavy blow for May's government", while a headline in the German tabloid Bild reads: "Theresa May's Brexit plans in danger".

France's Les Echos declares that "On Thursday, the government hit an iceberg called the High Court of Justice. Enough to sink the ship Brexit? Or just rock it slightly?"

Another French paper, Liberation, opts for a less dramatic metaphor, saying that "This is not a setback for Brexit but a stinging rap on the knuckles for the government of Theresa May."

But the Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore believes that "the judges of the British High Court have detonated a new bomb under the fraught separation of London from Brussels."