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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, greets British Prime Minister Theresa May at the Chancellery in Berlin, on Dec. 11, 2018.One of the paradoxical results of the Brexit breakdown is that continental Europeans have never followed British politics more closely. “It’s better than anything on Netflix,” former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski says. Another paradox is that Britain has never been more dependent on its European Union partners than it is now, when it proposes to abandon them.
Most important, French President Emmanuel Macron feels this may be his last big chance to push through the reforms needed to make a Europe fit for the 21st century. No one, and especially notThe British and European politics of Brexit create strange bedfellows: none stranger than the English arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Belgian arch-Eurofederalist Guy Verhofstadt. Ramping up the fears of an obstructive Britain, Mr.
I am shocked and saddened to see how many continental Europeans, including long-term friends and admirers of Britain, have given up on us. We British Europeans should be under no illusions: The cupboard of goodwill is almost bare. Sickness metaphors abound. Brexit Britain is now seen as a poison, a gangrenous limb, a cancer to be cut out – the body of Europe healthier without it.
Some are moved by the pleas of millions of British Europeans, projecting SOS in the colours of the EU on the white cliffs of Dover and
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