Cameron aims for pivotal European role

Article suggests that David Cameron, the United Kingdom Prime Minister is anxious to strengthen ties with Germany as well as France, creating an ad hoc version of the 'trilateralism' that became a central – and ill-fated – tenet of Tony Blair’s early European policy.

ESO: Background information: Merkel reassured UK will back treaty change http://www.europeansources.info/record/merkel-reassured-uk-will-back-treaty-change/

ESO: Background information: UK and France to sign formal defence treaty http://www.europeansources.info/record/uk-and-france-to-sign-formal-defence-treaty/

ESO: Background information: Sarkozy's 'EU6' plan doomed to fail, says UK's former Mr Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/sarkozys-eu6-plan-doomed-to-fail-says-uks-former-mr-europe/

AICGS: Analyses: EU Trilateralism: Germany, France, Britain, and the Failed Attempt to Turn the EU into a Serious Global Player, October 2010 http://www.aicgs.org/analysis/c/20yearsunity/larres.aspx

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