Germany ‘would accept UK exit from EU’ to strengthen emigration rules

2 Nov 2014
Last updated during 23:58

Angela Merkel is reported to have told David Cameron that she will not negotiate on EU migration

Chancellor Angela Merkel would rather see a UK exit from a European Union than concede over a element of giveaway transformation of workers, according to a German repository Der Spiegel.

Mrs Merkel is purported to fear that a UK is coming a “point of no return”.

Downing Street would not criticism on a reports.

Mr Cameron wants to renegotiate a terms of a UK’s continued membership before holding an in-out referendum.

The primary apportion pronounced that leisure of transformation would be “at a really heart of my renegotiation devise for Europe”, though Mrs Merkel is pronounced by a repository to have done transparent she will repel her support for a UK’s continued EU membership if he continues to pull for emigration reform.

Point of no return

This is a initial time that Mrs Merkel has concurred that a UK’s exit from a EU is possible, Der Spiegel said.

According to the Sunday Times, Germany has already deserted a offer to levy quotas on low-skilled EU migrants by tying a inhabitant word numbers released to them.

Der Spiegel reported that Mr Cameron was now looking during a devise to widen a EU manners “to their limits” in sequence to anathema migrants who do not have a job, and to expatriate those who are incompetent to support themselves after 3 months.

On Sunday, Conservative MP and former probity secretary Kenneth Clarke shielded EU migration.

“If you’re going to have a essential singular market, if we wish to contest with a Americans and a Chinese and so on and complicated world, we need a giveaway transformation of labour,” he told BBC’s Sunday Politics.

A Downing Street orator pronounced Mr Cameron would make a debate on immigration before Christmas, and stressed “you can be certain he will always put Britain first.”