Skip to main content

Germany: Brexit vote is a 'sad day for Europe'



Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday morning said he regretted Britain's decision to leave the EU, calling it a "sad day for Europe".
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel was very succinct in his response on social media: "Damn!"
Gabriel called it a "bad day for Europe".
The Leave campaign won the referendum on Thursday with a vote of 52 percent to 48 percent, according to the BBC.
Voter turnout reached 72 percent with over 30 million people casting their ballots.
Steinmeier's ministry said later on Friday that he will host talks on Saturday with his counterparts from the European Union's founding nations, following the vote.
France's Jean-Marc Ayrault, the Netherlands' Bert Koenders, Italy's Paolo Gentiloni, Belgium's Didier Reynders and Luxemburg's Jean Asselborn will meet in Berlin for the six-way talks on "current European political issues", Germany's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Germany had been pushing for Britain to stay with Steinmeier previously saying that Britain leaving could lead to the "disintegration" of the European project.
EU Parliament President Martin Schulz said after the results came in that he would speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel "on how we can avoid a chain reaction" of other EU states following.
"The chain reaction that is being celebrated everywhere now by euro-sceptics won't happen," he said.
The EU was the biggest single market in the world and "Great Britain has just cut its ties with that market," Schulz said.
"That'll have consequences and I don't believe other countries will be encouraged to follow that dangerous path."
"I am not shocked," he said of the results of the British referendum, adding: "We were prepared."
Earlier this month, Merkel also expressed her personal wishes for Britain to remain, warning that otherwise they could lose their influence.
“I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union,” Merkel said at the time.
“You can have much better influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input,” she added.
“It would not only be in our interest, but also in the interests of Britain, if it can bring its whole political weight to the negotiating table.”
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble also previously warned that a Brexit would lead to the UK being shut out of the single market.
Schäuble said that a Brexit would hurt all sides, saying that "it would be a miracle if a British withdrawal would not have economic disadvantages".
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Who Is Zuleyka Rivera? 5 Things To Know About The ‘Despacito’ Actress

With ‘Despacito’ up for Record of the Year at the 2018 Grammy Awards, here’s everything you need to know about the music video’s actress — Zuleyka Rivera! 1. She’s a renowned beauty queen.  Not only did she claim the Miss Universe Puerto Rico title, Zuleyka eventually took the top prize and was later crowned Miss Universe in 2006. 2. After her huge Miss Universe win, she studied acting and eventually became a TV star.  She now lives in Miami where she’s frequently a special guest or a host on shows like  Un Nuevo Dia  on Telemundo and  Despierta America  on Univision. Before that, she became a breakout star by appearing on several Televisa soap operas in Mexico. 3. In addition to modeling, she also owns her own clothing line.  On top of running her own teen-ware clothing collection, she also has three fragrance lines called the Karisma, Zuleyka and Zuleyka 2010. If that wasn’t impressive enough, she also started an amazing swims...
Post a Comment
Read more

Jane the Virgin Season Finale Recap: The Wedding of Jane Gloriana Villanueva

Ivonne Coll as Alba, Gina Rodriquez as Jane, Andrea Navedo as Xo. If I could write this whole recap with emojis, there'd be several varieties of hearts, the running man, the dancing woman, and lots and lots of fires and heart-eyed faces. Those creepy dancing twin girls would also make an appearance. And there'd be a gun. My imaginary emoji recap is appealing because it's incredibly hard to come away from a blockbuster hour of television like "Chapter Forty-Four" and pull together coherent thoughts that aren't just "AHHH!" or "WHY would you get ICE for the DAMN CHAMPAGNE?!" or "OMG FACE OFF MASK!" or "Why isn't all of life just Jane and Rogelio doing that father/daughter dance forever?" But I'll give it a try. Jane the Virgin 's season finale is a narrative fireworks display, a shock-and-awe storytelling spectacular that short-circuits emotional processing centers with blazing confidence. It drops j...
Post a Comment
Read more

ROSARIO DAWSON TO PLAY ACTIVIST DONNA HYLTON IN BIOPIC "A LITTLE PIECE OF LIGHT"

Rosario Dawson (L) and Donna Hylton * Rosario Dawson  has been cast as activist  Donna Hylton  in a feature film based on the biography A Little Piece Of Light, according to  Deadline.com . The book’s title is said to have been taken from something that happened to Hylton as a child. According to the story that will be used for the feature film: Growing up in Jamaica, Hylton’s mother first sold her to an American couple in New York. She was 7 years old. Thinking that she was going to Disneyland, she ended up in a very different reality: Hylton would find out that her adoptive father was a pedophile. To get away from him, she would hide in the closet, and when she saw a little piece of light coming through the room, she knew he was on his way to get her. Donna Hylton Hylton, whose beauty became her curse in a life of sexual abuse, was later arrested at age 19 when she was a high school track star over her involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a R...
Post a Comment
Read more