The isle is full of noises - Hoofdinhoud
Met dank overgenomen van J.H. (Han) ten Broeke i, gepubliceerd op donderdag 13 oktober 2016.
For a smooth Brexit, Britain must drop the boorish language and try to understand its neighbours
More jaw-jaw, less war-war
Take the Netherlands. It is a natural British ally, stresses Han ten Broeke, a Dutch MP and Anglophile: another seafaring sort of country; an economy so integrated with Britain’s that several big firms (like Unilever and Shell) straddle the North Sea. The harder the Brexit, the higher the costs. But certain political truths, he explains, override even this sympathetic interdependence: the EU must survive, Brexit must not spur others to quit, The Hague’s first loyalty is to Berlin.