GERMANY - "Dear start-ups, keep calm and move to Berlin." That is a new billboard slogan from one of Germany's political parties post Brexit. As the implications of the vote continue to reverberate through Berlin's establishment, it is the issues of security and economics that are dominating discussions in the halls of the Bundestag.
Even before British voters decided to end their nation's 43-year-old European Union membership, Germany announced plans to expand its army for the first time in 25 years, with Berlin also quietly increasing its role in international military missions.
Germany's forces stand at 180,000 soldiers, but that is a huge fall from a figure approaching 600,000 at the time of re-unification in 1990. Berlin's military boost should help fill at least part of the vacuum in Europe left by Britain — a pillar of the EU's defence capabilities. On Friday, NATO leaders meet in Warsaw with the alliance's two-day summit likely to provide an early glimpse of the enhanced political, economic and financial power that Germany should command in Europe in the wake of the British vote.
After living in the shadow of London for decades, Britain's move should also allow the German financial capital, Frankfurt, to shine as a global market hub and emerge at the heart of European financial life.
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