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For Europe, the threat of a no-deal Brexit comes at a bad time
“It’s actually the opposite,” said Christian Odendahl, Berlin-based chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a research institution. “There has been a slight hardening, a tendency among Germans to say, ‘Let’s at least end this uncertainty and let the Brits go their own way.’”