Central bank chief: EU needs a more European UK

The European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi, said at London City Corporation on 23 May 2013 that Europe needs a more European UK.

'I cannot say which of the two sets of arguments is stronger, the economic or the political ones, neither am I going to enter into a domestic policy debate, but what I can say is that Europe needs a more European UK as much as the UK needs a more British Europe'.

• Primary Source

European Central Bank: Speech: Building stability and sustained prosperity in Europe http://www.ecb.int/press/key/date/2013/html/sp130523_2.en.html

ESO: Background Information: Compromised Cameron issues EU referendum bill http://www.europeansources.info/record/compromised-cameron-issues-eu-referendum-bill/

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