Szydlo urged Cameron to respect the EU’s “free movement of peoples” principle over his plan to stop European Union migrants from claiming social security payments until they have spent four years in the UK. Contested issues will yet be debated, she added referring to welfare benefits issue.
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Cameron also said current net migration to Britain was unsustainable, a theme that is at the heart of the public debate back home about the pros and cons of being in the EU.
This week, Donald Tusk, the European Council President, said welfare reform was the most “delicate” of the UK’s proposals and there were “substantial political differences” over it.
The Polish prime minister signalled a degree of support for Cameron’s plans to make it all but impossible for European Union migrants to claim out-of-work benefits.
For Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, it marked the first meeting with a foreign leader in Warsaw since she and her conservative government took power last month.
Cameron told reporters that Poland had agreed to work together with Britain to find a solution to address the hard issue of “excessive migration” and welfare.
Mr Tusk said on Monday that he expects a deal at a summit in February to keep Britain in the bloc, despite a lack of consensus over the key demand on migrant benefits.
In an interview with The Spectator, reported in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Cameron said: “I think with both the eurozone crisis and the migration crisis, the short term impact is for people to think, “oh Christ, push Europe away from me, it’s bringing me problems”.
“However”, she stressed in reference to Britain’s welfare curb proposals, “there are also discussions and issues about which we do not see eye-to-eye today”.
Tens of thousands of Romanians protested lax safety regulations after the fire, which led to the collapse of the center-left government and the appointment of a government of specialists, headed by Ciolos, a former EU Commissioner for Agriculture.
Mr Cameron, who skipped Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons to travel to Bucharest for talks with Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, said he is “confident” of progress on his reform agenda. “I think the right outcome is to be part of a reformed EU”.
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Lawmakers voted 303 to 253 to reject a move by the upper chamber, the House of Lords, to lower the voting age to 16 from 18 for the referendum which Prime Minister David Cameron has promised by the end of 2017. “So, it becomes all the more important that we work around the clock to deliver this successful renegotiation”, Cameron said.
