Business | Anglo-German business ties

For Deutschland AG, Brexit goes from bad to wurst

Companies in Germany lament the effect of Britain’s departure from the EU

Feb 11th 2021|berlin

“WE FEEL BETRAYED,” laments Petra Braun, a southern German who with her partner, Peter Wengerodt, runs Hansel & Pretzel, a German deli and bakery in Richmond, a suburb of London. Since leaving the European Union just over a month ago, Britain’s once-welcoming government has made it hair-raisingly complicated and costly to import sausages, marzipan, quark cheese, apple sauce and other authentic staples. This year she has yet to receive any of the weekly deliveries of goods from her homeland.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “From bad to wurst”