European foreign ministries were at boiling point in the wake of the speech by the British Prime Minister. In Paris, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that if the United Kingdom wished to leave Europe, France would roll out a red carpet to British businessmen. His German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle, took the view that a “cherry-picking policy“ is not workable.
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