Cameron’s catastrophic decision on EU

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Series Details 12.12.11
Publication Date 12/12/2011
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Commentary feature in which writer says that a Conservative government has made another catastrophic decision to opt out of a treaty that will shape Europe over the next several decades by its decision at the European Council, Brussels, 8-9 December 2011.

As after 1955, the UK will now have to spend decades trying to join something it should have joined in the first place. And Europe will suffer from the absence of a strong economically liberal voice moderating the statist tendencies in many of the other member states.

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EUObserver, 12.12.11: Britain and the European Union – continuity or rupture? http://euobserver.com/7/114598
France24, 12.12.11: Britain's expats react to David Cameron's 'Non' to EU http://www.france24.com/en/20111210-expat-brits-france-react-david-cameron-eu-no-eurozone-nicolas-sarkozy
The Independent, 12.12.11: Britain – like the Cayman Islands, in the rain (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1277451-britain-cayman-islands-rain
Daily Telegraph, 12.12.11: EU just can’t accept that Britain is right (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1277441-eu-just-can-t-accept-britain-right
Gazeta Wyborcza, 12.12.11: The unravelling has begun (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1277281-unravelling-has-begun
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EUObserver, 12.12.11: Sarkozy: UK decision has created 'two Europes' http://euobserver.com/843/114599
Spiegel Online International, 12.12.11: Cameron's Veto May Herald End of Britain's EU Membership http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,803122,00.html

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