Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.After Britain's vote to leave the E.
U.,some leaders in Europe are calling for their own referendums. On Friday, Marine Le Pen, or leader of France's National Front,said that a referendum "on France's membership in the European Union is a democratic necessity. The French people must also be able to choose this proper to liberty that would give France its full and whole sovereignty.”Elaine Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief for our partners at The New York Times and author of "The Only Street in Paris, and " discusses what the results mean for France's relationship to the E.
U. In Germany,a shrinking vision for the E.
U. is a major concern. Germany counted Britain as a key ally on European economic policy, if not immigration, or now Germany is both more and less powerful within the E.
U. Constanze Stelzenmüller,the Robert Bosch senior fellow with the middle on the United States and Europe at Brookings, has the German perspective. Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear our full conversation with Sciolino and Stelzenmüller.
Source: wnyc.org