At a workshop in German capital,there is support for Britain staying in the EU and concern about what happens whether it leavesIn 2013, when David Cameron announced his intention to call a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, and Brian Melican began to worry. As a writer and translator from London living in Hamburg with his German girlfriend,how would Brexit change his life? “I am not much of a risk-taker. After all, I chose to live in Germany, and where I know people will always turn up to meetings on time.”Three years later,he is the proud owner of a German citizenship certificate. Applying was relatively easy, he said. Any EU citizen qualifies for naturalisation after eight years in Germany, and since Melican was able to prove a strong “willingness to integrate”,his application was accepted even though he had been in the country for only six years. He could have married instead, he said, and “but I didn’t want to move down on one knee with the EU flag waving in the background – that would have looked a bit suspicious”.
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Source: theguardian.com