Merkel Hints at Revisiting EU Welfare Brake in Brexit Gambit
- Barroso says more could have been done to keep U.K. in EU
- Merkel ‘convinced’ bloc can’t budge on freedom of movement
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested that the European Union should revisit a deal previously struck with the U.K. to curb welfare for migrants, as a former EU Commission head said more could have been done to keep Britain in the bloc.
Merkel, in a speech to employers in Berlin on Tuesday, was categorical in her refusal to consider any exception to the EU’s rules on freedom of movement in the coming Brexit negotiations. But she raised the prospect of discussing “when this freedom of movement is valid.”