The U.K. voting Leave in the EU referendum June 23 would “shake the union,” German Foreign Affairs Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned Wednesday, the BBC reports.
“It would not just carry on as 28 [countries] minus one,” Steinmeier said at a joint press conference in Brandenburg with French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. “It would require concerted efforts to ensure the union holds together and that a decades-long, successful integration effort does not end in disintegration.”
He also warned against “a nationalism that pits one European state against another.”
Steinmeier and Ayrault were meeting to discuss the Ukraine crisis and the ongoing cohesion of …read more
Source: European Voice
