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Registered: Oct 2010 Posts: 33316 - Threads: 426 Location: london
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| Matt wrote on 20-11-2017 01:20 PM
Yeah, a stable Germany under Merkel is good for Europe and EU unity.
But the current mess means Merkel has to focus on her survival at home.
And as you say, there's no reason to think another election will give vastly different results, if anything it favours the far right AFP party who went from 0 to 94 seats, 13%.
Since Merkel can't change anything at home, I'm putting a left-field thought out that she could raise her profile and standing by changing things in Europe whilst appealing to the right. For example, what if she considered the UK position on immigration? Came up with a new deal which wasn't conceivable when Cameron went cap in hand to Brussels, and moved the goal posts far enough to justify a second referendum in the UK?
Coupled with ongoing disastrous news from the negotiations and the EU's trademark concessions at the 11th hour that would fit Gordon Brown's "game changer".
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I don't know, you've got the greens looking for those asylum seekers who have been accepted to be able to bring in their close family and I'm not sure how that would pan out with them, they were also going to be needed for the coalition. I don't know enough about the AFP, where they stand on nationalistic business protectionism, it may play more into our hands, it may be less.
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