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WORLD NEWSSaturday 30 January 2016
UK’s Cameron: Still plenty of work to do at EU reform talks
RAF CASERT British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, stands with European Commission President Jean- was impossible is now look-
Associated Press Claude Juncker prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. British ing like it is possible,” he
BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron is kicking off a high-stakes weekend of diplomatic negotiations on told the BBC Friday.
Prime Minister David Cam- the European Union reforms with a visit to EU headquarters. Many EU leaders oppose
eron warned Friday that his Cameron’s proposal that
nation and the European (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) new immigrants wait four
Union still have serious hur- years before they can re-
dles to overcome ahead the discrimination of our Donald Tusk for a working erendum that could come ceive some British benefits.
of a mid-February summit dinner in London on Sunday as early as this summer. But the EU may be pre-
at which he hopes to ce- citizens in any EU member as the Feb. 18-19 EU summit Cameron has said he pared to offer Britain an
ment reforms that will per- on the issue draws near. needs more independent “emergency brake” that
suade British voters to stay nation,” Polish Foreign Min- Over the past weeks, both decision-making brought would let it deny some wel-
in the EU. sides have shown signs that back to national capitals fare provisions to workers if
After talks with top EU of- ister Witold Waszczykowski a deal may be possible. from EUheadquarters in it’s clear the national sys-
ficials, Cameron said the If he gets enough reform, Brussels, tem is under strain.
proposal for reform cur- said in Warsaw. Cameron will urge voters to The proposal could satisfy
rently on the table is “not back continued EU mem- and that he was heart- Britain’s goal of regaining
good enough.” After Friday’s talks bership during a British ref- ened by recent talks. some control over immi-
“It needs more work, but “What I was previously told gration and other coun-
we are making progress,” with EU Commission Presi- tries’ desire to maintain
he said. the key EU principle of free
At the same time, Poland dent Jean-Claude Juncker movement among mem-
again balked at Britain’s ber states.
desire to place temporary and European Parliament Schulz said Friday he was
curbs on benefits for EU mi- “optimistic there will be a
grants in the U.K. The 28-na- chief Martin Schulz, Cam- deal in mid-February” if
tion bloc values the free there was “good will from
flow of its citizens to work eron will host EU President both sides.”
and live among member Cameron said Britain sim-
nations — but Britain’s Con- ply wanted “a system
servative government says where you have to pay in
hundreds of thousands of before you get out.
people from Eastern Eu- We don’t want a some-
rope who have flocked thing-for-nothing society.”
to the U.K. are straining “I can’t be certain we’ll
schools, get there in February, but I
hospitals and social ser- will work as hard as I can to
vices. deliver a good deal for the
“We will not accept solu- British people,” the prime
tions that would lead to minister said.q
Fugitive mobsters found in Italy bunker with guns, cooking pots
FRANCES D’EMILIO bosses Giuseppe Crea and Also hanging from a wall Ferraro is considered one the pair, Italian Interior Min-
Associated Press Giuseppe Ferraro elude was a pasta pot. Tomatoes, of the last survivors of a ister Angelino Alfano noted
ROME (AP) — Italian po- capture for 10 years and 18 salad and what looked like decades-long ferocious they were “both on Italy’s
lice discovered an under- years respectively. a plate heaped with ricot- ‘ndrangheta clan feud list of most dangerous fugi-
ground bunker in the coun- Crea, 37, faces 22 years in ta were on the counter. that claimed at least 20 tives.”
tryside of southern Calabria prison for Mafia association; Despite its being dug deep lives, according to police. Authorities described the
Friday with two mobsters, Ferraro, 48, was sentenced into the ground, the hide- Among those victims was two as being clan bosses
considered among Italy’s to life imprisonment, includ- out was furnished with a mobster whose body was from ‘ndrangheta territory
most dangerous fugitives, ing for a murder conviction. electricity, and the mob- fed to pigs and a 9-year-old near Gioia Tauro, a port on
holed up and sleeping in- The two had a dozen fire- sters had a satellite TV and boy who was accidentally the Tyrrhenian coast which,
side. arms, including a Kalash- a computer, police said. shot when his grandfather’s investigators have long
Police said they are trying nikov, neatly hung up on a Vines and bushes camou- car was mistakenly fired on, maintained, the syndicate
to find a network of ac- wall, video released by po- flaged the hideout in the daily Corriere della Sera re- frequently uses as a base
complices they suspect lice of the bunker’s interior province of Reggio Cal- ported. for activities such as drug
helped ‘ndrangheta clan showed. abria. Announcing the capture of and arms trafficking.q
