While urging that the UK should stay in the EU, Germany also supported the United States’ strain on London to remain as a member.
Top politicians in Germany sent a clear message that having Britain as an EU member is vital to Berlin’s agenda in looking to reverse the damage of Europe’s economic downturn.
The leading figures in Berlin said they wanted to reopen the Lisbon Treaty [the international agreement that compensates the two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the EU].
German politicians want to renew the Lisbon Treaty to repair the chaos left by three years of the financial crisis, giving British Prime Minister David Cameron a chance to try to reset the terms of the UK’s membership in the EU, before he pushes ahead with an in/out referendum.
If the UK was to leave the EU, it would send critical and negative signs around the world, from the US to the Far East, of an inward-looking Europe caught up in squabbling and division.
Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister remains under constant pressure from division within his own Conservative Party, which splits some pro-EU backbenchers with rival Euroskeptics.
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