If the U.K. had new watertight proposals for the border, I don't think anyone in the E.U. would say, 'We don't want to talk about it.'
— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
When it comes to social issues such as the role of the family, I'm certainly more conservative than Angela Merkel. But on the big questions on what direction and where Germany should develop, when it comes to the economy, then we have very similar views.
Anything that keeps the U.K. close to the E.U. and best of all, in the E.U., would make me personally very happy.
Brexit has been a strain on all of us. In some ways it has paralysed us.
