Merkel Says U.K. Will Pay Price If EU Immigration Is Curbed
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the U.K. will pay a price if it curbs immigration from the European Union after Brexit, highlighting her uncompromising stance on the fundamentals of future relations.
“This isn’t meant maliciously, but you can’t have all of the good things and then say there’s a limit of 100,000 or 200,000 EU citizens” allowed to enter the U.K., Merkel said on a panel in Berlin on Wednesday. “That won’t work. At that point, we’ll have to think about which restrictions we do on the European side to compensate for that.”