Weidmann encourages UK to stay in EU

Buba president quotes Paul McCartney in assessment of EU relations

Jens Weidmann
Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann

Deutsche Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann encouraged the UK to stay in the European Union last night, insisting that both were better off together.

The ruling Conservative Party has committed to holding a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU if it wins an outright majority at the UK's next general election in May 2015.

Weidmann told the German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce that, under the union, the UK and continental Europe are "more than the sum of our parts".

He suggested

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