EU reform heat-map: Where do EU countries stand on the UK’s EU reform demands?

Ahead of the much-anticipated release of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s letter laying out his EU reform and renegotiation demands on the 10 November 2015, Open Europe published on the 8 November 2015 an EU reform heat-map assessing where each EU member state stands on the key proposals likely to be included.

The heat-map was Open Europe’s assessment, based on public statements and private intelligence-gathering, of how each government might react to five of the key proposals likely to be included in the letter:

+ Safeguarding the rights of non-Eurozone countries
+ An end to ‘ever closer union’ for all EU members
+ Limiting EU migrants’ access to welfare
+ A ‘red card’ for national parliaments
+ Deepening the single market, boosting free trade and cutting red tape.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: UK to set out EU reform demands in November letter to EU president http://www.europeansources.info/record/uk-to-set-out-eu-reform-demands-in-november-letter-to-eu-president/

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: Osborne calls for legal safeguards for ‘euro-outs’ http://www.europeansources.info/record/osborne-calls-for-legal-safeguards-for-euro-outs/

Open Europe: Press Release, 08.11.15: Open Europe’s EU reform heat-map: How might EU countries react to Cameron’s letter? http://openeurope.org.uk/impact/open-europes-eu-reform-heat-map-how-might-eu-countries-react-to-camerons-letter/

ESO: Background information: Cameron’s letter: European views on the UK’s renegotiation (via LSE EuroppBlog) http://bit.ly/1Mxiy3T

ESO: Background information: Speech: Prime Minister's speech on Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-prime-ministers-speech-on-europe/

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