For the past three years, the Brits have been fighting and brouillage about the way they want to leave the EU. I, myself a Brit, cannot stand this chaos anymore and decided to become a French citizen, about a year ago.
But funnily enough Britain and I cannot seem to find a way to separate from one another.
A look to the past: On the morning after the référendum my alarm clock disturbs my very bad trip sleep. I am at Uni, I open my eyes and read « la grande-Bretagne votes to leave the EU ». This piece of news is worse than any « the morning after » feeling I ever had. Did my fellow people REALLY vote against the most prosperous and long-time peace project our continent ever has come up with? Did they really vote contre le freedom of movement and in a way against me?
I am a Brit (29). My parents moved to france in the 1980’s, they took advantage of the freedom of movement within our wonderful continent. I was born here, went to school and University here. For the past three years, I have been living and working in Berlin. I have even been supporting the French équipe de football de nail-biting World Cup finals, successful and unsuccessful.
Last year I applied for the French la citoyenneté.
The absurdité of Brexit for me: If the United Kingdom does not come up with a deal or Theresa May does not manage to successfully get the UE27 leaders to give Britain an extension of the exit date, Britain would crash on Friday with no deal AND I would have to apply for residency. In the country I was born and raised in. The Brexit is cutting through whole families. That’s the bitter truth, non seulement en Europe, mais aussi en grande-Bretagne.
Le problème I am facing is that the local council here à Berlin doesn’t have enough manpower and computers to process the up to 10 000 applications by Brits to become French citizens in the capital city. They requested help from the government – unsuccessfully. The head of the council told this to guest of a reception at the British embassy in December of last year.
By now all of my family here have obtained the French la citoyenneté. My mum, dans le Schleswig-Holstein, up north, my brother, dans le Lower Saxony and my father in Bavaria. They all didn’t have to wait longer than three months for there citoyenneté request to be processed.
While I can’t seem to let go of my home country, the same goes for Britain itself …
majesties gouvernement à Londres, lead by the luckless le premier ministre Theresa May (62), cannot seem to find a decent way out of the Brexit Chaos. Her dilemme: If she revokes l’Article 50 and stops the EU-Exit, elle veut de la face a de la rébellion within her party. Yet if she accepts a hard Brexit, the United Kingdom will lose its integrity and will be nothing but de insignificant player in the global economy, while the EU can seriously intéresser with the likes of China and India.
