Merkel Fears U.K. EU Exit on Free Movement, Spiegel Says
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed concerns 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 today, 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 U.K. Independence Party in the run-up to the May 2015 general election.