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'Germany needs to make UK come to its senses'
TheLocal.de ^ | 24 Jun 2016 16:27 GMT+02:00 | Jörg Luyken

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; britain; england; eussr; germany; singlemarket; socialmarketeconomy
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To: Olog-hai

The overlords of Brussels (and Berlin) are in full panic mode and aren’t even trying to hide that fact.


41 posted on 06/24/2016 12:15:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: 1Old Pro

They ought not have insisted on pushing a social market economy on them by treaty then, never mind a one-size-fits-all interest rate system that favors only Germany.


42 posted on 06/24/2016 12:16:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How, by Germany threatening to send the UK to the showers?


43 posted on 06/24/2016 12:17:17 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Rebelbase
Cornish Game Hen

Cornwall's Finest (Wales)

44 posted on 06/24/2016 12:17:59 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Mr. Lucky

“some chicken, some neck”


45 posted on 06/24/2016 12:18:02 PM PDT by Finatic (Sometimes I think it would be nice to just get it on and get it over with. Once and for all.)
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To: SandRat

Square peg/round hole syndrome.


46 posted on 06/24/2016 12:18:11 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ConservativeMind

Because that’s not who we are!


47 posted on 06/24/2016 12:20:07 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: cymbeline; Maine Mariner
“Since when did free voluntary trade between two people or two countries require kowtowing to the European Parliament and its bureaucrats?”

Because if you don’t follow the EU’s edicts on social policy, environmental policy and economic policy your production cost for any goods you produce are most likely going to be less than those of an EU member.

This will be an unfair advantage for which you must be punished or you will not get to participate in the “EU Free Market”

48 posted on 06/24/2016 12:22:12 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: castlegreyskull
 
 
What is Germany going to do? Are they going to invade them?
 
Now, there's an option. They already have a Führer - of sorts - they've been importing males of fighting age by the thousands who have no real prospects at the present, except for sitting around and collecting welfare - just dress them up in snappy uniforms with high top black boots, cue the Horst Wessel song.
 
 

49 posted on 06/24/2016 12:24:16 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Olog-hai

Practical reality says that the party that holds the power in any relationship is the party that cares the least about the relationship.

The article makes it clear that Germany NEEDS the relationship, meaning that with Brexit the Brits are the ones who now hold the power.

I’d expect to see a free trade agreement, one seriously in Britains favor, “negotiated” pretty quickly. Which will then have major ramifications on the actions of other large EU players relative to their own memberships in the union.


50 posted on 06/24/2016 12:26:23 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Olog-hai
'Germany needs to make UK come to its senses'

Ruh, roh... We all know what happens when Germany gets angry.....

51 posted on 06/24/2016 12:33:34 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: lapsus calami

I think all the real Germans died in World War II. Hitler might be impressed by Merkel and would have taken the EU as a 2nd place prize.


52 posted on 06/24/2016 12:36:31 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Olog-hai
to “swallow the fact that they will have to rubber stamp Brussels legislation”

I'd be real careful with those threats. Remember the German auto industry makes a fat profit from the UK market. If the UK erected tariff barriers to EU automakers their profits would decline dramatically, then how is Germany going to pay for Greece, Portugal, Italy etc. Remember the UK was one of a small number of countries in the EU that actually was a net contributor, now Germany and France will have to pony up the gap left by the UK exit.

53 posted on 06/24/2016 12:36:40 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: teeman8r

IINM, the Trump policy does not (yet) entail increasing our military presence in Europe. Still the opposite.


54 posted on 06/24/2016 12:37:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Maine Mariner

The best thing the Brits can do for themselves is laugh in their faces and let them stamp their feet wee socialists feet in frustration.

This is yet another aspect of the whole thing that reminds me of Network: from when Beale is confronted by the CEO and preacher of the world order of business.


55 posted on 06/24/2016 12:38:31 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai

Some rather spectacular assumptions in this diatribe, specifically the assumption that Britain will be the only defector.


56 posted on 06/24/2016 12:40:54 PM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Olog-hai

Treaties can be repudiated.

In fact, many should be.


57 posted on 06/24/2016 12:41:08 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai

Well perhaps Ms. Merkel should come to her senses instead....as I recall all sorts of promises were made about great the EU was going to be. Great Britain has decided that they don’t want it any more......get over it.

Short of going to war (which by the way Germany lost last time) what can they do? Tsk tsk tsk


58 posted on 06/24/2016 12:41:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: castlegreyskull

The Germans tried this before. A couple of times, too.


59 posted on 06/24/2016 12:43:52 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Maine Mariner

It’s actually European Bureaucrats and their rubber stamp Parliament.


60 posted on 06/24/2016 12:45:32 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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