think about an e.u. with no u.k. britain is important but the truth is of course europe could survive without britain it still would be european union it would be still a very large market it is possible it is thinkable we can have a european union without britain among germany's euro skeptics there's a grudging respect for their british counterparts challenging brussels bureaucracy however they fear they could be in for more of that bureaucracy should the u.k. leave it will probably have a backlash for the european thinking and then they may think well now we have these odd balls out and we can go even further with your way of centralizing everything and even overregulating more than we have already and how do the german people feel about britain looking into divorce. if they want to go then they should if they don't use the euro it's not really. i couldn't care less but if that's what they want then we'll just continue without them. they