UK keen to delete ‘ever closer union’ from EU treaty

Speaking in a BBC interview on the 29 September 2013, on the eve of his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester, the UK prime minister David Cameron said he wanted to remove the commitment to “ever closer union” from the EU treaty, as part of plans to reform Britain's membership of the bloc.

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ESO: Background Information: Hand-waving as renegotiation: The UK’s (and EU’s) limited options http://www.europeansources.info/record/hand-waving-as-renegotiation-the-uks-and-eus-limited-options/

ESO: Background Information: The EU’s unwillingness to discuss the possibility of a ‘Brexit’ is playing into the hands of Eurosceptics http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-eus-unwillingness-to-discuss-the-possibility-of-a-brexit-is-playing-into-the-hands-of-eurosceptics/

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