Berlin is also restarting its Stammtisch events:

When: 4th July – 15:00 – 18:00

Where: Volkspark Friedrichshain

It’s summer 🌞 and we are allowed to meet 🧺 outside without restrictions, yeah! We will meet in Volkspark Friedrichshain 🌳 – an exact location 🗺️ will be posted shortly before the start time.

We will meet up, chat and check in. Possible topics of discussion include residency, summer holidays and football ⚽

Please bring your vaccination book or a negative test with. Also, due to Corona restrictions it is not recommended that we share food or drinks. Please BYO 🙂

We look forward to seeing you there!

Information taken from the event on our BiG Facebook page.

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The first Leipzig Stammtisch in 2021 will take place at

Place: the Moritzbastei, Kurt-Masur-Platz 1, 04109 Leipzig

On: Friday 2nd July 2021

Time: 19:00 – 22:00.

Our meeting point will be in the Cafe, though we may be sitting outside in the Hof if the weather is good.

Our first Stammtisch since 2020! Come along and have a relaxed evening with other Brits (and Brit fans) over a drink. We offer conversation and exchange of information regarding rights post-Brexit and anything else you might like.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Also see this event on our Facebook Group.

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The third Leipzig Stammtisch will take place at

Place: the Moritzbastei, Kurt-Masur-Platz 1, 04109 Leipzig

On: Friday 23rd October 2020

Time: 19:00 – 21:00.

A relaxed, informal evening to meet others, chat, ask questions and find support, all nationalities are welcome. There will be information about the Withdrawal Agreement and what it means for Brits in Germany now and after the transition period ends. If you’d rather speak about anything else other than Brexit, then that would be welcome too!

Update: An earlier version said Thursday. This has now been corrected.

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The second Berlin meeting since the Lockdown will be taking place

in
Brewdog, Ackerstraße 29, 10115 Berlin, Germany 

on 26th September from 2pm onward

Due to the forecast of rain, this event will now take place indoors at Beerdog and not in Volkspark Friedrichshein. 

We will be taking the names of attendees that will be kept for a month and request all attendees to inform us if they have been exposed to corona or tested positive – this is to keep everyone safe and to to keep track of people in the event that we are asked by the Gesundheitsamt.

You can register your interest for the event on our Facebook page.

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We had, I feel, a really successful first gathering. 11 people showed up, and perhaps a couple more would have been there, but they had trouble finding us.

We discussed the usual Brexit matters, but after a while we got some really good things on how people are feeling, what concerns them, and we even had some time to offer support to someone who is able to apply for permanent residency. A Migrationberater also attended and was helpful in offering advice and help both at the meeting and afterwards.

Some of the matters discussed were:

• The various and different registrations required to both live in Germany and to get your Withdrawal Agreement rights before the end of June 2021. How this affects those with dual-nationality. The process for gaining permanent residency for those here after 31 December 2020;
• Statuses as “Neubriten” vs. “Altbriten”. Do those with dual need to apply for this?
• Family rights, leaving the country to care for relatives;
• Scope of British in Germany;
• Advocacy and raising issues at German/EU/UK level;Referring members to the British Embassy/Consulate for relevant matters;

and

• Referring members to BME as Immigrationsberater for employment issues, duration of contracts, losing a job and subsequently applying for social security payments.

As an introduction it was good, and we are now voting on when to have our next one, potentially mid-August at the moment. Several people who couldn’t make it to the event this month have shown interest in coming to the next event.

I have some more plans to get the word out to more British people in the Leipzig area, such as speaking to the local English language newspaper, and I will be able to have a clearer view on that once the date for the next Stammtisch is set.

Nick, organiser of the Leipzig event.

British in Braunschweig group meets for the first time on Thursday 20th February 

By Wendy Anne Kopisch (Organiser)  ** NOTE CHANGE OF DAY – 1 week later, same place, same time. 

What will we be talking about on Thursday 20th ?

That Brexit will probably not solve but rather exacerbate the very injustices it was supposed to solve?

That all the things for which Britain was respected the world over – not so much its former colonialism but rather its enduring politeness, grace in the event of setbacks, and diplomatic dexterity – have become hard to detect under the tirade of abuse from Farage & co?

That we made life decisions based on the assumption that the rights we had at birth would not suddenly be taken away from us by a vote in which many of us were not allowed to participate?

While all these thoughts have been with us a great deal over the past few weeks, months and years, and they are just as justified now as they were on that morning three and a half years ago, the focus on Thursday evening will be on looking as positively as possible to the immediate future.

Now that Brexit has happened, what next for Brits in Germany? What are the most important steps to take now? What do the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, currently in force until the end of the year, mean for us, and what happens after the end of 2020? We are fortunate and grateful that the German government has agreed generous and flexible conditions for Brits living here, and this will be the main topic on Thursday. Come and join us!

7 pm in the Rheinische Republik.

Looking forward to seeing you there!  Sign up here