Theresa May given huge Brexit boost as Germany’s industrial powerhouse calls for ‘comprehensive’ post-referendum trade deal with Britain
Bavaria minister Ilse Aigner said the UK leaving the 28-nation bloc posed a “high risk” to her country’s economy
THERESA May was given a huge Brexit boost as Germany’s industrial powerhouse called for a “comprehensive” post-referendum trade deal with Britain.
Bavaria’s finance minister Ilse Aigner said the UK leaving the 28-nation bloc posed a “high risk” to her country’s economy.
She insisted “everything” had to be done to “put economic relations with the UK on a new foundation without fractures”.
Bavaria is the home to Adidas, Allianz, BMW and Siemens. Dominated by Munich, the region itself has a bigger economy than nearly 20 of the EU’s 28 member states.
The intervention follows a week of dire warnings from EU bureaucrats and threats to punish Britain for daring to leave the bloc.
This morning Malta’s PM Joseph Muscat insisted there was no way Britain will be able to access the EU single market if it wanted to restrict EU immigration.
He said: “This is really and truly our position and I don’t see it changing.”
But speaking to German newspaper Die Welt, Ms Aigner insisted the UK was one of the “most important trading partners” for Bavaria.
She said: “We have to do everything to address the uncertainties that have arisen.”