Angela Merkel's Advice to a British Expat: Get a German Passport
- Yet she’s confident citizen-rights solution will be found
- Won’t just be ‘bundled off to Birmingham,’ chancellor says
Angela Merkel attends the official opening of Brainlab headquarters in Munich on July 11.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel had some words of advice for a longtime U.K. expatriate: get yourself a German passport.
The exchange between her and Robert Harrison -- a British subject and longtime German resident -- prompted laughter and applause at a business event in Munich when Merkel was asked about the rights of U.K. citizens living in the European Union and half-jokingly suggested that “after 25 years it might be worthwhile to put yourself on a completely safe track.”