Posted on 06/24/2016 11:49:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Britain leaving the EU means trouble ahead for Germany — and its hardest task will be convincing the Brits to drop a self-defeating ideology, a leading foreign policy expert told The Local.
German business has a lot of vested interest in British markets, explains Josef Janning, head of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin.
And that means Germany will have its work cut out negotiating a settlement which gives Britain access to the single market after it leaves the European Union. […]
Being integrated into the single market will mean the UK will have to “swallow the fact that they will have to rubber stamp Brussels legislation” rather than gain the independence promised to them by the Leave campaign. …
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NOT-Angela is the one who put the nail in the EU coffin
Germany needs to oust Angela Merkel to come to its senses.
Like teenagers need to make adults come to their senses?
Like women need to make men come to their senses?
Like atheists need to make Christians come to their senses?
Like gays need to make straights come to their senses?
Or, like Brits and Yanks made Germans come to their senses?
yep
75 years ago it was some chicken. Today it’s a Cornish Game Hen at best.
WW I was the UK feeling that Germany was getting too strong.
There's absolutely nothing to back such assertions, except hot air.
“Since when did free voluntary trade between two people or two countries require kowtowing to the European Parliament and its bureaucrats?”
Exactly. I was about to post that thought.
Germany needs to shove Angela and her party into the Fuhrer bunker and forcefully move ALL Muslims out of Deutschland!
Exactly. All Britain needs to do is wait a few years until Germany collapses under Muslim flames, and then negotiate German trade deals directly with the new German masters in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Didn’t they try that once before in 1939?
Seriously? What’s next?? The luftwaffe? The Blitz Part Zwei?
they will not choose the bear, but with a change in direction come november, the Poles will clamour for a chance to ride the trump train...
i will keep my money on the poles... you are quick to say no, but who will you pick?
Germany is worried that they will have to fund the other failed socialist states all by themselves.
All of the pro-EU types are socialists. That is why they force a “social market economy” on the member states by treaty. All anti-socialist ideas are “self-defeating” even if they are not.
They tried that in 1940.
yep
Muslims don’t get to tell anyone to come to their senses.
Jawohl!
Unlimited submarine warfare is the proven means of bringing them to their knees!
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