Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, left, extolled the benefits of being part of the European Union while visiting the BMW auto manufacturing plant in Munich. We do not want to be parasites.
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The Prime Minister visited the headquarters during a trip to Bavaria where he appealed for German politicians to help with his membership renegotiation drive.
The previous evening Johnny Heald, of surveyors ORB International, said: “The Prime Minister’s arrangements with his European associates give off an impression of being essential in keeping away from Brexit”. “I am sure we are going to be able to find a solution that is going to be suitable for the Hungarian employees”.
Either they really believe that, or it’s easier to deal with the European Union as a whole, strategically, and Britain as a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member, than to figure out how an independent Britain might change things.
Whether it is our shared belief in free trade and sound finances, our major contribution to the European Union budget, our aid to reduce the suffering that drives refugees into Europe, or our military and intelligence services working together against terrorism, we do vital work together.
Britain’s European partners want to keep Britain inside and they will seek to accommodate most of Mr Cameron’s reform demands when they are discussed at a summit in Brussels next month, opening the way to a referendum as early as June.
The CSU is the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union.
Mr Osborne said that allowing ministers to campaign on both sides of the debate was “much better” than requiring those with well-known and long-held eurosceptic views to “obfuscate” about what they believe during the referendum.
However at the press conference in Budapest with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, Cameron said they had made good progress.
Orban also said he agreed with combating abuses in the welfare system, but said figures showed that Hungarian workers in Britain paid more in taxes than what they got back in benefits.
Amid fears the UK’s welfare system is being exploited by people from other EU countries, Cameron is proposing to restrict non-British EU citizens from accessing certain benefits during their first four years in the country.
Speaking in Germany, Mr Cameron said he was “even more confident after the discussions here that these (reforms) are possible and not just good for Britain, but actually good for Europe”.
If this deal between Cameron and the EU goes ahead, it would be a really clever way of getting around the biggest problem with Cameron’s attempt to renegotiation Britain’s membership of the EU, the core EU principle that EU countries should treat all EU citizens the same.
Despite that little hiccup, Cameron and Orban have a lot more in common when it comes to noncitizens coming to their countries than one may think.
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“But if we can’t get the reform we need then Britain has a great, great future elsewhere and outside, in a different relationship”.
