In the wake of the British vote to leave the European Union, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are prepared to push back against the efforts of Germany for more integration of EU. member states.
The push-backers are worried about being marginalized as Germany, no longer having to share space in the E.U. with Britain, a major economic power, might gain even more authority in the multinational organization. Britain has been a strong friend and ally of the four nations as they try to get the best deals for themselves within the E.U. Further, they, like the British, strongly support curbs on immigration into the E.U. in particular and into their nations in particular.
Note, of course, that there’s an outside chance that the U.K. won’t leave the E.U. after all.
“The genuine concerns of our citizens need to be better reflected,” the group’s four prime ministers said in a joint statement last week, in which they called for the E.U.’s executive power to be restrained. “Instead of endless theoretical debates on ‘more Europe’ or ‘less Europe’, we need to focus on ‘better Europe’,” they wrote.
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