Calls for EU Reform: Some German Politicians Agree With Cameron

[sysop]

A number of politicians from Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition parties have voiced support for British Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for a reform of the EU. They say they agree with a number of points he made in his speech on Europe last week -- but are opposed to granting Britain any further exemptions from EU rules.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-880401.html

[thorpeman@sky.com]

Originally Posted by sysop

A number of politicians from Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition parties have voiced support for British Prime Minister David Cameron's calls for a reform of the EU. They say they agree with a number of points he made in his speech on Europe last week -- but are opposed to granting Britain any further exemptions from EU rules.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-880401.html

It makes sense to make a clean break between the EU & the UK. The EU wants to be a single governed country called the United States of Europe, they may not say it but we sure as hell know that's what they mean. The politicians will create one single country & any Country seeking anything different is simply in the way & blocking this Franco German agenda. Britain is a fly in the eye of this progress. In Ireland we have had referendums & all have been ratified. We have a free trade agreement with the UK that goes back to 1965 so if they are in or out will have no effect on trade or the free movements of Irish or UK citizens. The best way forward is to encourage the UK to leave the EU or there will be no movement forward in the way imagined by Barroso, Schulz & Rompuy

[sylvesterthecat]

It is good to know that we have some support from the CDU party members but it's a pity it's a bit half-hearted.

Even so there's a year or two before negotiations need to start, (if indeed they ever start.) Should there be no satisfactory outcome to the talks then as things stand as they do now, the electorate will vote to leave the EU. I do hope I live to see it.

Who knows, we may even persuade Cameron the arch-Europhile himself, that he should vote to leave.