“We’re going to sit round the table and the negotiations are going to start and I think we’ve got a real good chance now of achieving the reform that we all want to see”.
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Scottish National Party European affairs spokesman Stephen Gethins said: “It is becoming increasingly clear that David Cameron is struggling to get the deal he needs to placate his party’s Eurosceptics”.
“As I have said before – I rule nothing out”.
It’s an approach that could succeed.
In his speech, Mr. Cameron told British voters that their decision would be crucial and the final say on the issue – a “once-in-a-generation choice”.
“David Cameron must spell out his position on workers’ rights”, she said.
In this situation, 47 per cent said they would vote to stay in and just 29 per cent to leave.
Of course, it’s a leading question. Mr Cameron is looking at ways round these objections such as making residency rather than immigration status the criteria for claiming benefits.
Reaching a deal on David Cameron’s EU renegotiation goals will be “very, very tough”, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. So, while it may be hard for Cameron to convince other European Union member states to his reform agenda, it may not be enough to convince the general public.
Competitiveness: A cut to regulations and bureaucracy.
The prime minister’s demands on ever-closer union are “purely symbolic”, Peter Lilley, who was a member of Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet, told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
“Limiting migrant access to benefits was ranked as the top demand by 22% of voters and 27% of undecided voters, showing its potential impact in swinging the referendum in his favour if the prime minister is able to secure this demand”, Lyons Lowe added. Other member states need have no fear of unexpected, last-minute concessions being sought during late-night meetings.
The principle of “ever closer union” is a phrase that appears in the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
In a Tuesday statement, Sobotka says that any attempts to limit freedom of movement poses “a serious problem for the Czech Republic”, which became an European Union member in 2004.
A safeguard for Britain, which uses the pound, and other countries that do not use the euro against economic discrimination.
And those critics aren’t holding back.
Conservative eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg called Cameron’s speech “pretty thin gruel”, while another, Bernard Jenkin, demanded: “Is that it?” Vicious infighting over Europe led to the downfall of the last two Conservative prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher in 1990 and John Major in 1997.
BBC Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt says: a few of these demands can be more easily delivered than others.
“The Constitutional Court in Germany retains the right to review whether essential constitutional freedoms are respected when powers are transferred to Europe”, he said.
Mr. Cameron’s confidence that Britain can eventually strike a deal was shared by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said she spoke with the United Kingdom premier by telephone Monday, the day before the letter was sent.
There are exceptions, however.
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The most politically charged issue is that of migration, both within the British domestic debate and for a few of Cameron’s European Union partners.
