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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by Pierre
It would hurt both, it’s not a question of who can hurt each other more.
As was the original argument, the CEO of BMW, VW, Audi & Mercedes most likely could not give a toss about U.K. imports into the EU. They are concerned with their sales only and their workers.
The German chancellor is not accountable to the EU, She/He is accountable to their voters and if they fail to get a deal and that adversely impacts the German motor industry they will know about it.
And that goes for all EU leaders and their respective economies, they can put on a united front but they also have to look after themselves.
It is in everyone’s interest to have good trading relationship, and a good relationship in general.
So there will be much brinkmanship in 2020, I’m sure an agreement will be sorted.
My own personal view though, is that access to U.K. fishing waters will be sacrificed on the alter of any future relationship.
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Germany’s leading industry (and automotive) representatives disagree with you...
https://www.politico.eu/article/germ...t-over-brexit/
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German industrialists have reiterated that retaining the integrity of the single market is their goal. “Defending the single market, a key European project, must be the priority for the European Union,” Dieter Kempf, president of the German Federation of Industries lobby group which represents around 100,000 companies, told the Observer.
This echoes similar concerns from the German Employers Association and an earlier intervention from the country’s powerful automotive lobby which said the integrity of the EU must come first in talks over the Brexit settlement.
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