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| Angela Merkel says she hopes UK stays in EU | Angela Merkel says she hopes UK stays in EU |
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| German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she hopes the UK will stay in the EU, saying that would be "for the benefit of all of us". | German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she hopes the UK will stay in the EU, saying that would be "for the benefit of all of us". |
| Mrs Merkel said that it was up to the British people to decide whether to Leave or Remain in the EU, in the referendum on 23 June. | Mrs Merkel said that it was up to the British people to decide whether to Leave or Remain in the EU, in the referendum on 23 June. |
| But, speaking at a press conference in Berlin, she said the size of the EU had helped to negotiate good trade deals. | But, speaking at a press conference in Berlin, she said the size of the EU had helped to negotiate good trade deals. |
| She added that you needed to be in the room to get the result you wanted. | She added that you needed to be in the room to get the result you wanted. |
| Live: EU Referendum | |
| Corbyn puts case to stay in EU | |
| Leave targets young voters | |
| BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the intervention was interesting because a few weeks ago German sources were saying privately that Mrs Merkel wasn't minded to say anything about the referendum. | |
| Mrs Merkel made her comments at a news conference with Nato General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin. | |
| The German chancellor, speaking at a news conference with Nato General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, said: "Obviously, it is up to the citizens of the UK themselves how they wish to vote on the upcoming referendum. I've said repeatedly before that I personally would hope and wish for the UK to stay part and parcel of the EU." | |
| She said: "We work well together with the UK particularly when we talk, perhaps, about new rules for the EU. | |
| "We have to develop those together with the UK and whenever we negotiate that, you can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input to those negotiations and the result will then invariably be better rather than being outside of the room." | |
| She stressed the importance of the single market and said countries outside the EU "will never get a really good result in negotiations". | |
| "It would be not only be in our interest but it could also be in the interest of Britain when it can bring its whole political weight to the negotiating table as part and parcel of the EU." |