Posted on 06/10/2016 9:29:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble warned Friday that if Britain voted to leave the European Union, it wouldn’t have access to the single market like non-members Norway and Switzerland do.
“That won’t work,” the veteran minister told Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly, which on Saturday plans to publish a German-English edition at home and in Britain with “Please don’t go!” on the cover.
“That would require the country to follow the rules of a club which right now it wants to leave.” […]
Schäuble warned that a Brexit could spark contagion in the EU, according to excerpts of the interview due to appear in Der Spiegel’s Saturday edition. “How, for example, would the Netherlands react, given its traditionally very close ties to Britain?” he said. …
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Merkel is achieving what Hitler and Kaiser Wilhelm failed to achieve over the last 100 years.
Napoleon pulled it off once with the “Continental System”. Didn’t stop Britain one bit!
Back when the EU was only the “Common Market” Britain was also locked out. It made do with its Commonwealth countries. Time to return.
new World Order..it’s surreal and nazism
Leave before the EU has its own army.
There’ll be no dissent allowed later.
Though, just to be frank, I don’t think England will leave. The wings of the cock (France) are missing in the Revelation beast relative to the unalmagated critters from Daniel, not the mouth of the lion.
What is it about the Germans, exactly, that makes them think they can simply dictate European policy? Is it that they just can’t help themselves?
Anybody wanna bet Britain won’t leave even if the voeters vote to?
Plus a President Trump might just invite them to join NAFTA.
They’ve been let away with it for a bit too long.
Maggie Thatcher predicted this would happen.
They wont let them leave for the same reason Lincoln would not let The South leave ‘the Union’.
Because who will pay all the bills?
That was not a warning, it was a threat.
“What is it about the Germans, exactly, that makes them think they can simply dictate European policy?”
Probably the fact that they’re carrying half of the rest of the countries economically.
Indeed!
Wouldn’t be surprised!
That’s not a fact. What is a fact is that they had the micromanaging of the social market economy handed to them on a silver platter and they got to abuse it.
the Brits will not leave.
rather they will stay and ignore the parts they don’t like
GIBBERISH
Britain will simply join the European Free Trade Association, or EFTA.
You do not have to be in the EU to trade with the EU!
Herr Schäuble has forgotten a lesson his ancestors learned the hard way. Making threats against the British tends to have opposite the desired effect. His remarks should elicit a “Some chicken! Some neck!” reply from the British voter.
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