Let Germany Offer Young Britons Citizenship, Merkel Deputy Says
- Vice chancellor faults U.K.’s ‘strange political elite’
- Gabriel heads Merkel’s Social Democratic junior partner
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Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel suggested that Germany could offer citizenship to young Britons, saying they shouldn’t be punished by the majority that voted to leave the European Union in the U.K. referendum.
“They wanted to stay in Europe because they know the world is changing” and the U.K. can’t go it alone, Gabriel said in a speech to a Social Democratic Party conference in Berlin on Saturday. “So it’s a good sign that young people in Britain are smarter than their strange political elite.”