We won’t even be close to becoming German by 29 March, but what’s driving me is the same reason my family became British in the 1930s: survival.

Diplomatic cables reveal the monarch also appeared to back the creation of a single market. / The Queen confided to the German ambassador that she believed the future of Britain lay in Europe, newly released diplomatic cables from 1988 have shown.

JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank, is moving around €200 billion euros ($230 billion) from the U.K. to Germany as a result of Britain’s exit from the EU. Here’s why.

A no-deal Brexit threatens to have a major impact on the European economy. Companies have long since begun making concrete preparations for an eventuality that is looking increasingly likely.

There are more than 116,470 British people living in Germany. Many of them have put roots down here, others are working, some are studying or travelling. All of them are affected by Brexit. We listened to their stories.

Far from minimal disruption, the full impact of leaving the EU may take 15 years to appear.

Thanks to Brexit, France has become the third-largest market for goods from Poland, after Germany and the Czech Republic, said the Polish Economic Institute (PIE). Analysts pointed out that Great Britain's exit from the EU single market resulted in a decrease in its share in Polish exports.

The government is accused of using a “revolting” reference to the Nazi Kristallnacht in a briefing blaming Germany for the Brexit deadlock.

"Britons should know: from the bottom of our hearts, we want them to stay." / The woman poised to replace Angela Merkel as Germany’s next chancellor has made a last-minute plea to the UK to remain in the EU, saying Britain is “part of who were are as Europeans”.

Angela Merkel's protégé Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who now leads the chancellor's CDU party, signed a joint letter calling on the UK to reconsider.

Campaigners took a float depicting a grotesque ‘Miss Brexit 2023’ to the Düsseldorf Carnival.

France, Germany and Poland among countries who will not send their own nationals to Britain

The music merchandise specialist says the move will help alleviate the significant trade issues created by Brexit.

Sick of customs delays and extra bureaucracy since Britain left the European Union, Farrat, a small manufacturer on the edge of Manchester, is ramping up investment to compensate - in Germany.

PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.

New Government figures show a massive post-Brexit slump in UK exports to Germany, France, Italy and Spain – and reveal the UK failed to transition to key export markets such as the USA and China. The new International Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, faces an uphill battle, warns ParcelHero.

Promises of a special trading relationship with America have also yet to materialise, the ONS figures show. / New Government figures show a massive post-Brexit slump in UK exports to Germany, France, Italy and Spain – and reveal the UK failed to transition to key export markets such as the USA and China.

Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland have come under fierce attack from Washington, with senior congressmen on both sides of the US political divide warning the “irresponsible” move is a threat to peace in the province.

UK citizens fear ‘consequences’ of British government’s announcements after Brexit.

Five years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, most Europeans say they would welcome them back.

Brexit has been an “economic disaster” for trade and investment ties between the United Kingdom and Germany, leading to a fall in German direct investment and seeing the UK decline in importance as a trading partner, German economists said.

Olaf Scholz, set to take over as German chancellor after coalition talks, offers advice to UK.

Drawing on their recent article, Tim Bale and Karl Pike explore the consequences of the ‘Merkel myth’ for Brexit – the notion that the key to UK withdrawal lay with Angela Merkel.

Whether for inward investment, exports or tourism, Germany is a top five country for Ireland with potential for much more.

The Irish balance sheets of large systemically important banks with international operations run from Ireland have grown by as much as €200bn since the UK voted to leave the EU six years ago, a study has found.

‘Brexit is materially restricting our growth now,’ manufacturer Farrat says. / Manchester — Sick of customs delays and extra bureaucracy since Britain left the EU, Farrat, a small manufacturer on the edge of Manchester, is ramping up investment to compensate — in Germany.

UK car makers have been 'unable to meet the requirements' of the Metropolitan Police protection service

Conference of European Rabbis has planned move from London for years, viewing need for its offices to be in heart of Europe; organization’s head says Germany is ideal location.

Anti-German dogwhistling has plagued the pro-Brexit camp since pre-referendum billboards enjoined Brits to 'Halt Ze German Advance.' As the Brexit chaos intensifies, that populist jingoism is becoming increasingly shrill.

German chancellor makes veiled comment that leaving the EU could lead to the UK losing international influence.

Since the transition period ended, shops supplying British groceries say they have struggled with extra paperwork and import difficulties.

The Treaty of Versailles established arrangements to prevent a hard border between Germany and Poland in Silesia. It failed, becoming a flashpoint in the relationship between the two countries. Even a permanent backstop is a poorer guarantor of peace in Northern Ireland than remaining in the EU. (Thea Don-Siemion)

More than 14,000 UK citizens living in Germany took up citizenship in 2019, accounting for 23 per cent of those eligible.

UK carmakers ‘unable to meet the requirements’ of the Metropolitan Police protection service.

A recurrent claim of the Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum was that it would be easy for the United Kingdom, once it had decided to leave the EU, to agree with the larger countries of the Union, notably Germany and France ... But the misconception was illuminating for its misjudgement of the European Union and the solidarity between its members.

German embassy in London receives more than 3,380 requests in two years after 2016 referendum.

Engineering giant wants to limit disruption caused by leaving the EU.

The Tory race for the top job rumbles on. Europe attempts to fill its own big positions. President Michael D Higgins hears strong words of support on Brexit in Germany. We also get a business view of the 'no deal' sentiment and get the reflections of a former European Parliament Brexit steering group member as she wraps up her term.

Brexit is likely to have a negative impact on the business between Germany and the UK, the German DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce said on Tuesday, adding that a trade and cooperation agreement with Britain can only partially offset the downturn.

Emmanuel Macron is urging the negotiators not to compromise while Angela Merkel is anxious that talks are not derailed.

Legal experts say Brussels has right to take retaliatory action, making cross-border law enforcement harder. / We have noted the reaction of the United Nations, and they are really concerned about what’s going on,” Anton Hofreiter, the chair of the committee, told reporters in London.

The number of Japanese firms in the UK fell by 12 percent between 2014 and 2019. / Brexit drove a shift in Japanese firms out of the U.K. and toward continental Europe, a report shows.

The UK fell out of Germany's top five trading partners in December, data from the country's national statistical office Destatis shows.

Outgoing high commissioner in Singapore says Britain seen as divided and ‘careless of truth’. / Scott Wightman, Britain’s outgoing senior diplomat in Singapore, has said Britain is now seen worldwide as a country beset by division, obsessed with ideology and careless of truth.

Charities in several countries in Europe have been handed government funding to help vulnerable residents apply for post-Brexit residency.

Six years post-Brexit, Britain remains haunted by the EU in a neurosis that is not reciprocated in Brussels or other capitals.

Firms have been hit by increasing red tape and delays at ports since Brexit at the year end, while the Northern Ireland Protocol has caused significant disruption at the Britain and Northern Ireland border.

There's been a huge fall in trade between the UK and Germany during the first month of the new trading relationship between the UK and the EU.

For the first time since 1950, it's no longer among Germany's top 10 trading partners as first-half exports plummet 11%

Without a deal, the country’s departure from the European Union will be a disaster.

Britain's role in foreign affairs has been in decline for a long time, and that will continue unless the country joins with other European countries in a very sustained way.

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany's top 10 trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe's largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany's top ten trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe's largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany’s top ten trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe’s largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

The tiny village of Brunsmark, an hour outside Hamburg in the lush north German countryside, might seem an unlikely spot to suffer a sudden Brexit shock.

Representing UK citizens throughout Germany.

Since Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016, 31,600 Britons have acquired German citizenship.

Chris and Tanja have no confidence in this government and reject its withdrawal agreement but more specifically talk about Brexit British attitudes towards Germany, where things stand for EU citizens as B-day approaches, and Brecht.

A supplier of car parts to the likes of Range Rover and BMW is reportedly closing its UK plant and setting its sights on Europe.

During the EU referendum campaign, prominent Leavers were confident that the German car industry would call on Angela Merkel to give the UK a favourable deal to protect export interests. But is that really the case? Naga Munchetty reports from Leipzig.

China has overtaken Germany to become the UK's biggest single import market for the first time since records began.

One of Europe’s most prominent associations of Orthodox rabbis is moving its headquarters from London to Munich in a ripple effect from the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

Outward migration also rises significantly, with emigrants prepared to take more risks.

On 27 October 2022, the European Commission announced that it has decided, under the state aid rules, to approve a EUR12 million German scheme to support the fisheries sector in the context of Brexit.

HMRC figures reveal huge year-on-year falls in trade, with whisky, cheese and chocolate worst hit.

German analysis of Britain’s current political impasse has been making the rounds on Twitter – with no translation needed.

A disorderly Brexit would be a disaster for Britain and its citizens, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told Reuters, adding that the latest signals from London “do not raise excessive hopes for an agreement”.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has blamed Brexit as the reason why the firm chose Germany rather than Britain as the country to launch its new Gigafactory.

'Brexit made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK'

Although the UK was their first choice, the uncertainty over Brexit forced Tesla to change their plans.

Olaf Scholz, poised to become next chancellor, wades into row over HGV driver shortage.

Theresa May must have 'clear and precise' reason for extension.

Fourteen countries likely to take tough stance in future talks about fisheries if access to UK waters does not improve.

Fewer scholars from Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands working in British universities, says report.

After a February meeting between U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and 19 Japanese business chiefs, Tokyo’s ambassador to Britain warned what might happen if Brexit took an unfavorable turn for foreign investors.

Deliveries from France and Germany are at around 50 per cent of pre-Brexit levels as hauliers avoid red tape and queues.

“WE FEEL BETRAYED,” laments Petra Braun, a southern German who with her partner, Peter Wengerodt, runs Hansel & Pretzel, a German deli and bakery in Richmond, a suburb of London.

'The French in the UK had a sense of being abandoned. They said, ‘yesterday we were Londoners and today we are foreigners’

Macron says withdrawal agreement can not be renegotiated, seeks ‘clear vision’ from UK.

Industry leaders fear new entry restrictions and the UK’s tarnished image among some Europeans have caused a decline in EU visitors

My daughter is right: she should raise her children in Germany rather than Boris Johnson’s increasingly debased Britain.

"Britain has traditionally been Germany’s fifth largest trading partner. In 2022 UK will drop out of the list of the TOP 10"

Tourism leaders are concerned that French and German tourists are starting to avoid the UK due to post-Brexit restrictions on travel with identity cards.

After months of planning, Trigger Cut were looking forward to a UK tour… but then they got to the border.

Germany's biggest business lobby group has warned its members to prepare for 'a very hard Brexit'. Ian King speaks to Nina Schick, the German political commentator and Tomasz Wieladek, senior European economist at Barclays.

Head of employers’ federation says integrity of single market more important than making good business with Britain. / German industrialists have warned that British hopes of their support in Brexit negotiations are misplaced and could backfire with dangerous consequences for international trade.

Boris Johnson moves into 10 Downing Street on a promise to deliver Brexit within months. However, German business leaders have urged him to avoid a disorderly Brexit. Trade between the two countries is already falling.

The UK has had little influence in Germany’s upcoming election, experts say, after the country ‘shrugged its shoulders and moved on’ from Brexit. / "Germans generally think Brexit is a bit mad, they generally wish that Britain was still in the European Union, but they shrug their shoulders and they’ve moved on."

German exports to the UK declined 2.5% last year, due to effects linked to the Brexit process, Germany's federal statistics office, Destatis, has said.

A 51-year-old immigrant has been elected mayor of a town in eastern Germany after beating a candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a campaign that drew international attention.

The number of Britons getting their hands on citizenship from an EU country nearly doubled in 2019, latest data reveals.

‘In the event of non-compliance.... we are committed to the consistent application of all agreed measures and countermeasures’.

The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged Britain to stick to the post-Brexit trade deal ahead of a key debate and vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday to ratify the agreement. / "It is absolutely counter-productive that the British Prime Minister is constantly threatening to breach the agreement," BDI Managing Director Joachim Lang told dpa.

In London for LSE symposium, politicians express confusion at Britain’s post-Brexit stance

Sigmar Gabriel says Germany cannot ‘raise drawbridge’ on UK’s young people who want to remain EU citizens.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Vote Leave promise that exit from EU would allow UK to ‘take back control’ will come to nothing.

The German Foreign Minster has said Germany will not support any Brexit agreement that results in a hard border on the Island of Ireland. Heiko Maas was addressing a conference of Irish ambassadors and diplomatic mission chiefs in Dublin Castle.

Comments will be a blow to No 10, which had hoped Merkel would help break deadlock

Germany has extended the grace period by which British citizens were allowed to live and work in Germany after Brexit without any documentation.

Adverts targeting Polish nurses also boast Germany is much closer to family at home.

Boris Johnson under ‘wrong impression that he can pull off negotiating at the 11th hour,’ says EU official.

Germany told European Union nations that relations between the UK and the bloc reached a new low and they should be ready for a serious fight if London enacts the bill it proposed to tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Germany lined up behind other EU states and official to warn that a new UK prime minister will not be able to renegotiate the Brexit withdrawal agreement struck between the EU and Theresa May.

Speaking in Berlin, Michael Roth said “90 per cent” of Britain’s cabinet ministers have “no idea how workers think, live, work and behave” and that their ignorance had led to a “big s**tshow”.

Flagging trade talks have seen little progress.

The favourite to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor said ending freedom of movement with the EU has created a ‘problem’ for Britain.

Boris Johnson’s team isn’t going to let economic models get in the way of a political revolution.

Last year, UK car production hit its lowest level since 1956 because of skills shortages and supply chain issues.

In a quiet corner of northern Germany there is a small community where a Scotsman is in charge.

Salesforce is extending its Hyperforce data sovereignty offering to the European Union (EU), but Brexit Britain won’t be part of the program until next year despite being the firm’s second largest market outside of the US.

Study for German Green party says backstop could let UK flout EU green and social standards.

The recent report from Fox’s Global Britain Commission sets out Britain’s productivity problem but offers no answers to it.

Lord Brian Paddick (former DAC, London Metropolitan Police) speaks to the crowd gathered in Newcastle on 25/03/2018. He speaks on issues of security and policing surrounding Brexit.

MICHAEL Gove has been accused of wilfully ignoring the facts in an effort to avoid accountability for the “long-term damage” caused by Brexit.

Cabinet Office minister warned hauliers that unless they get their post-Brexit paperwork in order there could be queues of up to 7,000 lorries.

UK business is again looking for workarounds to continue trading with the EU, after Germany announced it would be ending VAT exemption for goods valued at less than €22.

The Conservative MP claims Brexit helped thwart Putin's Ukraine invasion. He is wrong.

That’s according to a new study by an economic research centre, which found Germany would be the worst hit EU country when it comes to jobs in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement in place.

ICAEW tells MPs there could be ‘systemic’ impact on economic confidence if UK crashes out. / Britain’s next prime minister will take charge of an economy beginning to falter, as Brexit uncertainty and the mounting risk of a no deal scenario serve as a brake on growth, according to a Guardian analysis.

'Disorderly Brexit would create such a complex situation that it is impossible for companies to prepare for all eventualities,' said Utz Tillmann, managing director of VCI

When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests, Robert G. Patman writes.

British seeking ‘foothold’ in EU single market to ease red tape burden.

Ex-ambassador says Democrat White House would prioritise France and Germany.

To safeguard potential reimbursement claims against foreign plaintiffs, the German law of civil procedure contains a provision according to which the defendant can request plaintiffs outside the European Economic Area to provide a cost security before they can sue in German courts.

Reuters revealed that Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany’s top ten trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms in Europe’s largest economy to look for business elsewhere.

Aerospace firm will also move some regulatory approvals to Germany amid political turmoil

Salmon exports fell 98% in January from year-earlier period. / Sales to Germany, Ireland, Italy down by more than 80%: FDF.

Loss of young Europeans on pupil visits will cause major cultural damage to UK, warn tour organisers.

In a recent decision, the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) had an opportunity to provide further guidance regarding the obligation of UK claimants to provide security for costs in German proceedings.

German firms won almost three times as much in contract fees than the UK, with its share rising to €307m (£281m) in 2018

It was billed as the rebirth of British business — a chance to build a brighter commercial future, free of costly bureaucracy. But Brexit is proving far from profitable for many UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The new Prime Minister was decisively on the side of those who claimed that the country would have a better future outside the EU.

France, Germany and Poland say they will refuse to allow extradition of their nationals.

Musk says uncertainty over future ruled UK out of running for new facility.

Brand's European factory will be built near Berlin and produce the Model Y SUV, with Tesla R&D centre in Germany, too.

Electric cars are the future, and Britain should be uniquely well-placed to manufacture them. But the Brexit purists don’t care about that – or the jobs and investment that’ll be lost.

My latest update estimates Brexit reduced Britain's GDP by 5.5 per cent by the second quarter of 2022. My model avoids the cherry-picking of data, and performs better than its critics’ methods.

The United Kingdom lost market share in the United States, Germany and China during the COVID-19 pandemic due to global trade chaos, Brexit and poor productivity, according to new research published on Monday.

Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.

Enter the disturbing special exhibition that has recently opened in Berlin’s German Historical Museum and you are immediately confronted with a series of bleak statements: “Liberal democracy cannot be taken for granted any longer … Authoritarian parties are even gaining strength in countries with a long democratic tradition ..."

As much as I consider the UK to be my adoptive home, I will move back to Europe for my upcoming PhD research project.

Successive governments squandered billions of Marshall Plan Aid to support British world power pretensions, and so jeopardised the economic future of Britain.

Almost every nation at some point believes it’s special and on a mission. They’re all wrong, and the sooner we get over this nonsense, the better.

A total of 6,250 people from the UK became German nationals in 2018, a rise of 950 per cent on pre-referendum numbers.

Lloyds and Barclays among banks taking action due to lack of post-Brexit trade deal.

Greg Hands was asked why Michael Gove made the promise if it is now considered a bad move.

SHAREHOLDERS in travel giant Tui have voted unanimously in favour of the company ditching its listing on the London Stock Exchange. / Tui, which is currently dual-listed in London and Frankfurt, announced last night that investors had voted by a large majority (98.35%) to quit the UK capital.

New government figures show post-Brexit slump in UK exports to Germany, France, Italy and Spain – and failure to transition exports to the US and China, says ParcelHero

Britain slides out of top five of Germany’s largest trade partners as imports fall to €32.1bn in 2021

The British government has been warned that there is "no legal or political justification" for unilateral action on the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The UK lost market share in the US, Germany and China, thanks to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit chaos on trade, Reuters reports, citing a report by Aston University’s Lloyd’s Banking Group Centre for Business Prosperity.

The UK is expected to drop out of the list of Germany's top 10 trading partners by the end of this year, official German statistics suggest.

‘No justification’ for bid to ditch NI protocol, Ireland and Germany warn Johnson.

Ten EU member states have said they will no longer extradite their nationals to the UK following Brexit, the Home Office has said.

The UK is to withdraw from the European Union aviation safety regulator (EASA) after the Brexit transition period, Grant Shapps has confirmed.

ONS figures could be a sign that the UK is losing its overall competitiveness, say experts.

First official snapshot comes after collapse of export volumes in first month of Brexit deal.

The UK's diplomatic heft and economic muscle have been greatly damaged by leaving the world's largest trading bloc. It will have increasingly little sway in any future global crises.

Over the years there have been a number of stories about how EU laws impact our lives in the UK.

The UK government has stepped up its planning for leaving the EU without a deal, covering areas such as transport, healthcare, energy, food and water. But what is the EU doing to prepare for this scenario?

None of the EU27 have expressed support, but not all have actually shared their opinions on the new proposals.

How vulnerable each region is to economic disruptions from Brexit: Parts of Germany are especially vulnerable.

A leading figure in Germany’s ruling Social Democratic party (SPD) has called for far closer links between the UK and the European Union, amid rising concerns the Brexit divide is harming efforts to solve international crises, including mass migration.

UK Labour frontbencher David Lammy has blamed Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal for the HGV driver shortage.

Foreign secretary James Cleverly says protocol talks moving ‘pretty fast’ after meeting German counterpart.

Curators who left the UK after the referendum took with them experience that is reshaping their cities’ art scenes.