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The agony of Brexit – for us Germans

We Germans have been in denial about Brexit

1 February 2020

9:00 AM

1 February 2020

9:00 AM

In the early hours of 13 December, I called my newspaper in Berlin and suggested we run a piece about what might happen on Brexit day, 31 January 2020. For a second the line went strangely quiet. ‘Hello? Last night’s result means Brexit,’ I said to my colleague. ‘It’s really happening.’

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Stefanie Bolzen is the UK correspondent for Die Welt.

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