Biggest Trading Partners in Europe

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Germany still lives in the "export or die" mentality it seems , which is a very one-sided relationship in the EU towards the other countries....

[Karl M.]

I would guess that most nations have nothing to offer Germany to make greater levels of importation appealing.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Germany's largest export markets:

1. United States
2 France
3. United Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ers_of_Germany

Merkel tried to make threats of imposing trade tariffs to the UK after Brexit during the UK trade negotiation talks with the EU in the run-up to Brexit next year. But the UK buys more products from Germany, than the Germans buy from the UK... so who stands to lose after Brexit?

The UK currently gives over GBP£375+ million (425 million euros / US$508.8 million) per week to the EU.

Brexit will RUIN Germany as UK taxpayers stop funding EU coffers - say Germans

BREXIT is threatening EU funded projects in Germany as budgets could shrink after the UK stops budget contributions when it leaves the bloc in March 2019, it has been revealed.

Although it is rarely discussed in Brussels or Berlin, Germany is becoming increasingly concerned about losing UK funding and trade.



https://www.express.co.uk/finance/ci...russels-Berlin

I don't think Brexit will ruin Germany - despite the UK being one their biggest export markets.

The UK signed another $13 billion of trade deals with China recently. (Will probably also trade and sell billions of barrels of oil from the Falkland Islands with them too.)

[Ouistreham]

I don't think Brexit will ruin Germany - despite the UK being one their biggest export markets.

Yes, more or less, but Brexit is going to be a big blow to the countries that are kept afloat thanks to the EU budget — Greece, Portugal, and all new East-European members.
Britain is the second biggest net donor.
Brexit means that available funds will be reduced by close to 30%.
On the other hand, less money to the poorest EU members means that their capacity to import German goods is going to decrease accordingly.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Yes, more or less, but Brexit is going to be a big blow to the countries that are kept afloat thanks to the EU budget — Greece, Portugal, and all new East-European members.
Britain is the second biggest net donor.
Brexit means that available funds will be reduced by close to 30%.
On the other hand, less money to the poorest EU members means that their capacity to import German goods is going to decrease accordingly.

I think Greece wants to leave the EU. Their democratically elected leader was removed and replaced with a pro-EU puppet government by the Eurocrats. Dictator Merkel keeps imposing harsh austerity measures on the Greeks, and I feel sad for their situation. I think forced political unions always leads to dictatorships and greed, and subsequent disharmony and divides.

The UK still wants to be friends with European nations after Brexit and negotiate sensible economic trade deals with our European neighbours... but we just don't want this forced political union and foreign eurocrats making most of our laws on mass immigration, Islamisation, etc. They're forcing the EU controlled states to house and fund a share of refugees and it's starting to look like the United States of Eurabia.

[yankeedoodle]

I'm curious to see what effect the ascendancy of China over the mid-term (next five years) will have on current trade relationships within the Eurozone. Greece is relatively supportive of China as compared to most other EU nations, and China has been making increasing amounts of FDI into the nation.

https://www.merics.org/sites/default..._0.pdf#page=71

Of course, Greece is not alone in receiving Chinese FDI.



Most views of China are fairly negative within EU member states, with Greece holding the most favorable perception.

http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/24/

A potentially greater trade relationship with China may not bode well for Greece's tenure within the EU. China appears to have an interest in establishing a trading bloc of its own in Western Asia but, with Turkey in the way, progress may be slower than desired.

[Damião de Góis]

Yes, more or less, but Brexit is going to be a big blow to the countries that are kept afloat thanks to the EU budget — Greece, Portugal, and all new East-European members.
Britain is the second biggest net donor.
Brexit means that available funds will be reduced by close to 30%.
On the other hand, less money to the poorest EU members means that their capacity to import German goods is going to decrease accordingly.

You seem to think we are still in 2008:

[Ice]

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