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"en.20111213.5.2-031-000"2
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"Mr President, Mr Cameron stated in Westminster yesterday that only two options confronted him at last week’s summit: a new treaty without the negotiated safeguards for Britain or no treaty at all. He rightly chose no treaty. But with this failure, he left his and the Conservative Party’s EU policy in tatters. He mistakenly and naively promised the British people that he could repatriate powers from the EU, and that he could safeguard British interests. But such negotiations are not possible with the European Union, a Union that blatantly and negligently disregards sensible economic rules. You even broke your own rules in the Maastricht criteria just so that your beloved political project of European federalisation could move one step further. In your negligent actions, you cause financial hardship for people across Europe, people you constantly ignore in referendums. You deny them even the opportunity to have their say.
To protect our interests, my country was right not to go along with your economic negligence. Even Ms Harms said that the summit denied reality and denied democracy. The British Prime Minister, having had his electoral pledge on renegotiating Britain’s relationship with the EU undermined and discredited, has finally faced up to the inevitable by refusing to have any part in the latest doomed rescue plan. Mr Cameron’s EU policy of negotiation is now in tatters and only a referendum on Britain’s future membership of the EU is a viable solution. Democratic integrity demands nothing less. The British people demand nothing less."@en1
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