EU must stop others following Britain out of the door, Merkel warns amid market fears bloc is 'no longer governable' after Brexit
- German Chancellor says it is necessary to prevent others copying Britain
- Financial markets fear EU is 'no longer governable' after Brexit, she said
- Merkel is due to meet with French President Francois Hollande later today
Published:
06:09 EST, 27 June 2016
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Updated:
09:12 EST, 27 June 2016
Angela Merkel has
said the EU needs to stop other countries following Britain out of the
door amid market fears that the bloc is 'no longer governable' after
Brexit.
The
German Chancellor told her conservative party board in a conference
call that it was necessary to prevent other European Union members going
down the same path as Britain.
Merkel
is also said to have revealed that international financial markets are
concerned the EU is 'no longer governable' in the wake of Britain's exit
vote.
Angela Merkel (pictured with Ukrainian
Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman in Berlin today) has said the EU
needs to stop other countries following Britain out of the door amid
market fears that the bloc is 'no longer governable' after Brexit
Angela
Merkel has urged the EU to prevent other countries following Britain out
of the door amid market dears that the bloc is 'no longer governable'
after Brexit
German chancellor Angela Merkel and
Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman review a military guard of
honour before talks at the chancellery in Berlin today
Merkel (pictured today) is also said
to have revealed that international financial markets are concerned the
EU is 'no longer governable' in the wake of Britain's exit vote
She added that it was not the right time to pursue a quick deepening of cooperation between euro zone member states.
The
EU should instead act on popular concerns such as securing the bloc's
borders, creating jobs and improve internal security, she said.
Her
comments were reported by two sources who took part in a telephone
conference of the board of the Christian Democratic Union.
A
German government spokesman said today there will be no informal
discussions between Britain and the European Union before the British
government has invoked formal divorce proceedings.
Steffen
Seibert, spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel, said the UK first
needed to make the formal Article 50 request - the legal mechanism for
the withdrawal of a member state from the EU.
'One
thing is clear: before Britain has sent this request there will be no
informal preliminary talks about the modalities of leaving,' he said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
(left) welcomes European Council President Donald Tusk (right) for
talks at the chancellery in Berlin
French President Francois Hollande
(right) escorts European Parliament President Martin Schulz after a
meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris
French President Francois Hollande,
left, welcomes European Council President Donald Tusk, prior to a
meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris today
'Only
when Britain has made the request according to Article 50 will the
European Council draw up guidelines in consensus for an exit agreement,'
he added.
Guenther Oettinger, a German member of the EU's executive European Commission, also issued a warning.
'Every
day of uncertainty prevents investors from putting their funds into
Britain, and also other European markets,' he told Deutschlandfunk
radio. 'Cameron and his party will cause damage if they wait until
October.'
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a softer line. She says she will not
battle now over the timeframe and has underlined the need to continue a
positive trade relationship with Britain, a big market for German
carmakers and other manufacturers.
But
a Merkel ally, Volker Kauder, made clear the exit negotiations would
not be easy. 'There will be no special treatment, there will be no
gifts,' Kauder, who leads Merkel's conservatives in parliament, told ARD
television.
French President Francois Hollande and
German Chancellor Angela Merkel are meeting in Berlin later today with
EU President Donald Tusk and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Hollande is pictured at a meeting in Paris earlier today
Italian Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi has said Brussels can't afford to spend a 'year on procedures' for
Britain's exit from the European Union
Speaking
on the Today programme, German MP Michael Fuchs, a senior ally of
Chancellor Angela Merkel, made it clear things were going to have to
change.
He
said: 'Either you are in a club or you are out of a club. If you are in
a club you have to follow the rules. If you are out of the club, there
will be different rules.
When
asked whether it would be possible for Britain to retain access to the
single market, he added: 'It will be possible, of course, but not for
free.
'You
have to see with Norway, with Switzerland, you have to pay a certain
fee. And the per capita fee of Norway is exactly the same as what
Britain is now paying into the EU. So there won't be any savings.'
Today,
Merkel said she understands that Britain may need 'a certain amount of
time to analyse things' regarding its departure from the EU but adds
that a 'long-term suspension' of the question wouldn't be in either
side's economic interest.
BRUSSELS SHOULD DITCH ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FRENCH MAYOR CLAIMS
A French mayor has called for Brussels to ditch its use of the English language after Britain voted to leave the European Union.
English
is one of 24 'official languages' of the EU while it is also one of the
'working languages' used to conduct every day business.
But
Robert Ménard, the mayor of the southern French town of Béziers,
believes English now no longer has 'any legitimacy' in Brussels in the
wake of the Brexit vote.
Meanwhile,
the left-wing presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said English
can no longer be the 'third working language of the European
Parliament'.
Robert Ménard, the mayor of the
southern French town of Béziers, has called for Brussels to ditch its
use of the English language after Britain voted to leave the European
Union
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Ménard believes English now no longer has 'any legitimacy' in Brussels in the wake of the Brexit vote
According
to The Local, 51 per cent of EU citizens can speak English as a first
or second language while just over a quarter can speak French and nearly
a third can speak German.
Despite
Thursday's exit vote, it appears unlikely English would be axed
altogether in Brussels since it is also the official language of both
Ireland and Malta - both members of the EU.
In
2013, an EU report revealed that English had squeezed out every other
language in the competition to become the common tongue of Europe.
It
found that English is the most popular foreign language in all but five
European countries, and all of those are small nations that use the
language of their larger neighbours.
The report also found that two out of three people across the continent have at least a fair working knowledge of English.
The
report published by the EU statistics arm Eurostat suggested that the
dominance of English was likely to become even greater in the future.
It
found that 94 per cent of secondary school pupils and 83 per cent of
primary age pupils across the EU are learning English as their first
foreign language, more than four times as many as learn French, German
or Spanish. Only in Britain and Ireland is French the top foreign
language in schools.
She wouldn't comment on whether it's acceptable for London to wait until October, as David Cameron plans.
Meanwhile,
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
are meeting in Berlin later today with EU President Donald Tusk and
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, ahead of an EU-wide summit Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Renzi has said Brussels can't afford to spend a 'year on procedures' for Britain's exit from the European Union.
Briefing
the Senate on Monday, Renzi noted the EU 'spent a year on negotiations'
aimed at satisfying Britain ahead of last week's referendum.
The
EU summit this week on Britain's departure 'won't be the last' in
Renzi's view. But he says those meetings must concentrate on 'the
relaunching of Europe, not just procedures.'
Renzi says 'pluck, lucidity and intelligence' is needed by European leaders, adding now's not the time for improvisation.
3 comments:
Point is Ms. Merkel... No one wants your governance!!!! There will surely be an Amexit and whatever other countries dispise being destroyed by your rotten agendas! Look at what you've done to Germany... Hordes of young muslim barbarian men shitting all over your streets, destroying property and raping children and women and demanding things they've neither earned nor deserve. Why don't you crawl into a hole, go join your daddy at the Antartica Schwabenland and leave the surface of the earth. You should never be allowed to govern!
why doesn't she just reserrect her father and attack the bastards
"If anyone needs another confirmation that the European Union is fundamentally the most anti-democratic entity currently in existence, then the following statement by European Parliament Martin Schultz should put all confusion to rest.
Schulz: "The British have violated the rules. It is not the EU philosophy that the crowd can decide its fate"."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-27/president-european-parliament-it-not-eu-philosophy-crowd-can-decide-its-fate
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