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January 10, 2013

Will Cameron Fiddle While UK Spurns EU?

Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest

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Great Britain has been conducting an agonizing reappraisal of its relationship with the European Union. For months Prime Minister David Cameron has been trying to elide the issue of a referendum, while placating the anti-European fanatics in his own Tory party. Now Philip Gordon, the assistant secretary of state for Europe, has raised eyebrows in London with his statement that it would be foolish for Great Britain to attentuate its attachment to the European Union.

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TAGGED: UK, David Cameron, European Union

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