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50 per cent of Germany’s citizens see King Charles III’s visit to Germany as a sign of Britain’s rapprochement with Germany after Brexit.
This is according to a survey released on the second day of the king’s trip on Thursday.
According to the poll conducted by the research institute YouGov, 50 per of those surveyed see it that way, with 37 per cent agreeing “somewhat’’ and 13 per cent completely.
The visit to Germany is Charles’ first trip abroad as the new British king.
According to the poll, 27 per cent do not believe that Charles’ visit represents a post-Brexit rapprochement (15 per cent “somewhat disagree,” 12 per cent “strongly disagree”). Some 24 per cent of those surveyed did not specify.
Some 3,736 people in Germany aged 18 and over were surveyed for the poll on March 29 the day that Charles and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, arrived in Berlin.
The King’s visit was “a wonderful personal gesture and an important signal for German-British relations,” German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said at a reception in Berlin.
Charles said at a state banquet at Bellevue Palace on Wednesday evening that relations between the two countries were also extremely important to him, and that he would work to strengthen them further. (dpa/NAN)
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