The draft law – called the Brexit-Aufenthalts-Überleitungsgesetz (Brexit Residence Transition Act) – guarantees that all British people and their family members will receive residence permits if the UK crashes out of the EU without a deal. As The Local has reported, Germany has previously given verbal reassurances that no British person will be forced to leave Germany as a result of Brexit. However, the new law goes a step further to provide reassurances to British nationals who have set up their lives in the Bundesrepublik. In a tweet BiG also highlighted that a no-deal Brexit would have "catastrophic consequences" such as pensioners losing access to free healthcare under the “S1” reciprocal healthcare rules. Earlier this week the British Embassy in Germany urged Britons to seriously prepare for the possibility of a no-deal.

Source: The Local August 01, 2019 08:03 UTC