Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Britain Losing Allegiance to the EU


No Illusions
''Now it could happen that a convention initiated by Great Britain will achieve precisely the opposite result, namely the division of Europe. This, at least, is the fear that has senior crisis managers in Brussels worried at the moment. Greece's financial problems are no longer at the top of their list, but rather the possible departure of one of Europe's largest countries.
No one in Germany wants this, but no one with any political responsibility has any illusions about London's European policy, either. "We find it regrettable that England is taking certain steps without us," says Rainer Brüderle, the parliamentary leader of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP). But he also knows where Germany's policy priorities lie. "We must eliminate the birth defect of the euro, and we need a stronger political union." And that, apparently, will only be achievable without Great Britain...''   DER SPIEGEL

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