I don't think you're responding in good faith but I'll humour you nevertheless: Merkel is a conservative in the truest sense of the word. She doesn't like chan

I don't think you're responding in good faith but I'll humour you nevertheless: Merkel is a conservative in the truest sense of the word. She doesn't like change, and she especially doesn't like rapid change with snarky comments. Also keep in mind Schulz is from the equivalent of Labour while Merkel is from the equivalent of the Tories. Schulz wants more EU, Merkel just wants something stable. That they're not in agreement isn't surprising. Merkel doesn't want anyone leaving the EU at all and ideally she doesn't want the UK to leave, or at least not leave entirely. She's not interested in a destabilized EU or a destabilized UK. As I've said before; unlike what I've seen Leavers spout on the Internet for months: Germany (in general) is not consistently promoting the idea of a United State of Europe and the EU certainly isn't our Fourth Reich. Remember how I said that the impression in Germany is that the UK is falling apart because of this? I was talking about the man on the street, not politicians.