German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union must consider restricting Britain’s access to the bloc’s single market if London does not accept the four basic freedoms of movement when it exits the EU.
Merkel repeated her warning on Monday that there could not be any Brexit negotiations based on the UK “cherry picking” parts of the EU it prefers without accepting the “four freedoms”– the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people.
“Access to the single market can only be possible on the condition of respecting the four basic freedoms. Otherwise one has to talk about limits to access,” Merkel said at a meeting of the German Civil Service Federation in Cologne.
“These negotiations can not be based on cherry-picking because that would have disastrous consequences for the other 27 member countries.”
The German chancellor made the comments after British Prime Minister Theresa May defended her government’s approach to Brexit…