German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the federal cabinet's meeting in Potsdam, Germany November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday welcomed a draft agreement on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union but warned that the worst case scenario would be a no-deal Brexit.

As British Prime Minister Theresa May battles to save the draft divorce deal after several ministers quit in protest, Merkel said: “The worst case, and most disorderly, is that there is no kind of no deal.”

“You have to see the alternatives and then ask: is what we have a basis? So I hope that this can be such a basis,” Merkel told reporters at a news conference on her government’s digitalization strategy.

“We have a document on the table that Britain and the EU 27 have agreed to, so for me there is no question at the moment whether we negotiate further,” she added.

Merkel had earlier said she was glad that negotiators had got this far and Britain and other EU members now had to examine and finalize it.

“Firstly, I am very happy that after long negotiations which were not easy, a proposal has been pulled together,” she said.