A leaked EU document suggests that Brits across the EU will face fallout due to the UK’s treatment of foreigners after the Brexit vote – and Berlin is stalling on its own position.

Brits in Germany could be facing an uncertain future, at least that’s according to a leaked EU document that British newspaper The Guardian saw last week.

The leaked paper said that the future status of Brits in the EU will be a matter for each individual member state after the UK leaves the union in 2019.

This means that the roughly 100,000 Brits currently living in Germany will have to see what the Berlin government decides to do with them.

Last year, shortly after the UK voted to leave the EU, then vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel spoke of offering young British people resident in Germany a fast-track towards gaining German citizenship.

But, contacted by The Local this week, the interior ministry refused to guarantee the residency rights of Brits currently working in Germany from 2019 onwards. It also did not deny that Britain’s treatment of EU nationals in the UK would affect its attitude towards Brits in Germany.

In response to a request for assurances on both these questions, the interior ministry replied “the German government has not yet conclusively come to a position on the legal status of British citizens after Great Britain leaves the European Union.”

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