Merkel for Brex: EU sees it as our life insurance

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Brexit a wake-up call, in an interview published today in the newspaper, after addressing threats to the multilateral approach that has set its time in office.

I see the European Union as the security of our lives. Germany is too small to exercise a separate geopolitical influence, and that is why we should use all the benefits of the single market”, Merkel said.

The Chancellor, who is expected to leave politics next year, stressed that international institutions like the European Union and the United Nations were primarily a lesson from World War II and the previous decades. /Attish