In Pro-Europe Germany, Fear Persists Over What Happens After Brexit
The political turmoil in the United Kingdom is slowing the German economy.
Oct 30, 2019
3 minutes
Business owners in Europe’s largest economy were holding their collective breath this week, wondering whether clarity would finally come on Oct. 31 after three years of uncertainty over Brexit.
The answer was a resounding no.
“It is high time that we conclude this issue,” said Holger Bingmann, president of the German export association BGA, after the European Union agreed on Monday to extend the deadline to pass a divorce deal through the British Parliament to January 2020.
Bingmann because uncertainty is choking Germany’s $4-trillion economy. As
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