Angela Merkel Rules Europe?

[webbo3]

Since when did Ze Germans rule and speak for all of Europe, I bet all the holiday resorts will be happy.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/angela-merkel-launches-bid-to-ban-all-british-travellers-from-the-eu-cn95bjfpk

https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/angela-merkel-launches-bid-to-ban-uk-travellers-from-eu-reports-29220

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9731341/Angela-Merkel-bids-BAN-British-tourists-EU.html

[New Judge]

//Why should we be bothered , we no longer belong to Europe ?//

When did the UK "belong to Europe". As far as I am aware the UK has never belonged to any other country or bloc.

//And for now at least we are pretty isolated, not just because of the sea.//

There is every likelihood, Ikky, that whether we still "belonged to Europe" or not the EU panjandrums would still be calling for this measure.

[youngmafbog]

Merkel was part of GDR Youth. And doesn't it show.

I find some of the Remoaners comments quite baffling. Alone outside the EU, so with the 6+Bn of the rest of the world then.

[burlyshirley]

What a miserable old goat !!

[jourdain2]

It does seem to be becoming rather one-sided over there now. The EU bureaucracy (cabal?) is supposed to represent all countries - but I haven't heard of any less-powerful countries trying to dictate the general path. France needs to take heed. There is enough unrest there already.

[New Judge]

//It does seem to be becoming rather one-sided over there now.//

Becoming? It was always thus, jourdain. The EU was designed for the benefit of German industry and French agriculture. The euro was designed to give the smaller economies (many of whom should never have been allowed to adopt the single currency) sufficient funds to buy German goods which they would otherwise be unable to afford. There was never any other aim.

[tomus42]

Germany doesn't get as much tourist money from the UK as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece etc. That's why she's proposed it and none if those other countries have.

[venator]

If we'd done this 100 years ago, we would have excluded Alexanindra of Saxe Coburg Gotha.....

[Jackdaw33]

Prince Albert was of the house of Saxe Coburg Gotha, not Queen Victoria.