Friday, November 29, 2024

Angela Merkel ‘Tormented’ by Brexit Vote and Saw It as ‘Humiliation’ for EU

THE GUARDIAN: Former German chancellor’s book tells how she tried to help David Cameron win over Britain’s Eurosceptics

Angela Merkel has said she was “tormented” over the result of the Brexit referendum and viewed it as a “humiliation, a disgrace” for the EU that Britain was leaving.

In her autobiography, Freedom, due to be published on Tuesday, the former German chancellor says she was dismayed by the notion that she might have done more to help the then British prime minister, David Cameron, who was keen for the UK to stay in the EU, but that ultimately, she concluded, he only had himself to blame. » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Sunday, November 24, 2024

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