After 10 years living in Spain, I got
to know hundreds of German people and I've felt for years that they should be
our closest friends and allies in Europe.We're remarkably similar. When you talk politics or the EU, they have just the same views and concerns as us. They're decent hardworking people. They do actually have a sense of humour! They(surprisingly) really respect us and I have massive respect for them.
Out of the ashes of the EU we should be looking to the future and a trading bloc with the Germans, Dutch Scandi's etc. The rest of Europe is broken.
Sod the "special relationship" with the US. It's Germany we should try and work with. As a country who would like to and need to improve our manufacturing base - we have a lot to learn from them.
All of this scaremongering from the US, Ford, Honda, the City etc about how bad it would be for us to leave the EU is just risible b*llocks. There's a big world out there and let's be honest, the majority of the EU periphery are f**ked. The Germans know this too.
We should, for once, lead the way and show the world how successful we can be without all the BS form the EUSSR!...
When Britain leaves the EU, as it will, we should invite Germany to leave
too. They have much more in common with an Anglo-Saxon nation like England than
they do with France, Italy, Poland or Spain. A new Northern league pact: an
economic alliance of free nations that trade with each other and the world but
do not have ambitions to create a superstate, has much appeal to even
Eurosceptics. Germany, Britain, Holland, the Scandinavian countries and maybe
even the Baltic States could form a new EFTA.
Meanwhile, France and the Mediterranean countries could proceed at a slower,
socialistic pace that allowed the Euro to devalue to its lowest common
denominator. We would once more find holidaying in Spain and Greece cheap, they
would not need to be straining their economies to stay within touching distance
of German efficiency. Happiness all round.
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We are prepared to talk about British wishes but we must always bear in mind that other countries have different wishes and we must find a fair compromise. We will talk intensively with Britain about its individual ideas but that has some time over the months ahead.
Back to Europe, Mr Cameron is grilled on how he thinks he's going to get consent for a new relationship with Europe:
I believe what is going to happen is the eurozone countries do need to make changes... I think this gives us the opportunity and the right for countries not in the eurozone to argue for what we would like.... We should not back off from pushing our agenda as well.
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Several foreign ministers from Germany, France and Italy dismissed Mr Cameron's chances of getting a fresh settlement with Brussels or deeper reform of the whole EU.
One of Mrs Merkel's close allies also today called for immediate British referendum on EU membership because Mr Cameron is unlikely to get the new settlement he envisages.
Gunther Krichbaum, the chairman of the Bundestag's powerful European committee, told German MPs that Britain should get on with a vote.
"There's no reason to delay the decision because all the arguments are on the table," he said. "There is and can be no renegotiation in Cameron's sense."
Mr Krichbaum also attacked the PM's timing for a referendum, after 2015 during a period when the eurozone would trying to create "fiscal union".
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