{"id":105832,"date":"2017-10-20T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=105832"},"modified":"2017-10-20T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:42:13","slug":"brexit-how-do-other-eu-countries-see-a-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=105832","title":{"rendered":"?Brexit: How do other EU countries see a ‘no deal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels and at the top of their agenda is a review of the Brexit negotiations. They are demanding better clarifications from the UK over its financial commitments, and the impasse has led to a lot of talk of a “no deal” Brexit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We ask journalists covering the summit how their countries view the possibility of no formal agreement between the UK and the EU.<\/p>\n

Germany: Daniel Br\u00f6ssler, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung Brussels correspondent<\/h2>\n
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The German thinking now is that a “no deal” scenario is not what you want – of course it would have an impact on British-German trade. But my impression is that the German government thinks that a bad deal, from the European perspective, would be even worse. They are saying we need a fair deal. But if there is no deal we will survive it, it will be tough but the EU will survive it – and Germany has a lot of trade with the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n

So far the talks are not seen in Germany as having broken down – people think there is still time to make a deal, that enough progress might be made in December. But people see that there is a risk. Politicians see responsibility for this on the British side – and Brexit has already estranged us to a certain degree. There is a feeling of them and us, you can see a pretty strict mood in Berlin. People say we need a fair deal, but there is no mood to have a deal just to please the British.<\/p>\n