Germany’s Angela Merkel fears UK exit from the European Union

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed fears for the first time that Britain might quit the European Union amid Prime Minister David Cameron’s bid to curb free movement within the bloc, Der Spiegel magazine reported.

 

Merkel is concerned by Cameron’s efforts to reduce the free flow of workers from the other 27 EU member states into Britain, Spiegel said in its latest issue, citing unnamed officials in Merkel’s office and Germany’s Foreign Ministry. Cameron is seeking to woo back voters from the anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party in the run-up to the May 2015 general election.

 

The German chancellor told Cameron in a private conversation at an EU summit in Brussels last month that the premier would reach a point of no return if he continued with his efforts to introduce quotas on migration to the UK by fellow EU citizens, Spiegel said. At that point, she’d halt her attempts to keep Britain in the bloc.

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