German Chancellor Angela Merkel urges EU to stiffen position in the negotiation with UK over Brexit. She makes the statement as a response to British Prime Minister Theresa May's speech that signals the UK to strengthen its control over its immigration policy.
Merkel also made an appeal to German companies to show a united front with EU governments over the Brexit on Wednesday, as reported by The Guardian. In her speech to German exporters on Wednesday, she said that the EU needs support from the business to uphold the principle of four freedoms as the sole condition to access the single market.
"If any one country was allowed an exception, you can imagine how all countries will put put conditions on free movement with other countries," she said. "And that would create an extremely difficult situation."
She said there is no exception to the EU's four freedoms, which include free movement of people, goods capital and services as reported by The Independent. The four freedom she mentioned is the core foundation of the EU law.
While in her Sunday speech at the Tory's party annual event, British Prime Minister Theresa May said that her priorities in the Brexit negotiations is to regain control of British immigration policies. UK will start the official process to separate from EU in March next year.
Prime Minister May made a tough stance to show her determination to strengthen the UK. She insisted that the government needs to be more active and unafraid to poke its nose in when things when the market fails to provide or when business practice is unfair according to BBC.
Her decision is a change of direction from her predecessor in the UK Conservative party. She focuses her policy on the center ground and shows empathy for working and regional middle classes in the entire UK. Prime Minister May stressed that she encourages free markets and creates meritocratic society and improve the finances of the poor.
EU and Britain are strengthening their stance for the upcoming tough negotiation process to begin formal process of UK's separation from the bloc in March 2017.
