Maissa

It's no surprise that George Osborne's ineevritw only made page 10 of Die Welt. When William Hague made a speech on the EU in Berlin a couple of months ago neither Die Welt nor any other German newspaper reported it at all. The reason is simple. The German media are not that much interested in Britain. Open Europe needs to remember that our relationship with the EU, which to pro-UKIP bloggers and commentators is the stuff of life, is in Germany a sideshow. The German government and the German political class are focussed on the survival of the euro. Whether we choose to stay in the EU or not is, by comparison, a lesser order distraction. If they can find a simple fix to help us remain a member they will. But they're not going to spend months or years negotiating about it. They've got more important things to worry about.