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world NEWSWednesday 11 November
Cameron: Britain’s EU demands not ‘Mission: Impossible’
JILL LAWLESS Cameron says he wants Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron thinks during a question and answer session after he
Associated Press to remain in, provided he delivers a speech on EU reform and the UK’s renegotiation, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.
LONDON (AP) — Brit- can secure the reforms he Cameron on Tuesday formally launched his bid to renegotiate Britain’s membership within the
ish Prime Minister David seeks. European Union, setting out four key demands for EU reform.
Cameron laid out his gov- He acknowledged that
ernment’s demands for getting the other 27 na- (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)
European Union reform tions to agree to Britain’s
Tuesday, saying a looser goals would be a major
“British model of member- challenge — but not “Mis-
ship” would let him cam- sion: Impossible.”
paign “heart and soul” for “I would argue that it’s
his country to stay in the Mission: Possible, but it’s
28-nation bloc. going to take a lot of hard
Cameron said the EU must work to get there,” he
agree to “irreversible said.
changes” that would The EU’s executive Euro-
cede autonomy back to pean Commission, how-
member states — and limit ever, called some of the
freedom of movement, a issues raised by Cameron
key EU principle, by allow- “highly problematic.”
ing the U.K. to restrict ben- Cameron outlined his de-
efits for immigrants from mands in a speech in Lon-
within the EU. don and a letter to Euro-
Britain will hold a referen- pean Council President
dum by the end of 2017 on Donald Tusk.
whether to leave the EU. He told an audience
at the Chatham House for national parliaments to binding and irreversible”
think-tank that his country opt out of rules made by exemption from the EU’s
wants change in four ar- the Brussels-based EU. commitment to an ever-
eas, including protection “We are a proud, indepen- closer union.
for countries such as Brit- dent nation. We intend to Most contentiously, Cam-
ain that don’t use the euro stay that way,” Cameron eron said Britain wants to
single currency, less red said, stressing that Britain “control migration from
tape and greater power wanted a “clear, legally the European Union.”q
Portugal:
Government ousted amid austerity backlash
BARRY HATTON manded of countries shar- the bloc*s recent financial
Associated Press ing the euro currency. crisis.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The moderate Socialist Eurozone leaders had
Anti-austerity lawmakers Party forged an unprec- pointed to Portugal, and
forced Portugal’s center- edented alliance with the Ireland, as examples of
right government to resign Communist Party and the how austerity paid off as
Tuesday by rejecting its radical Left Bloc to get a their economies improved.
policy proposals at the start 122-seat majority in the Now, the progress Portu-
of what was supposed to 230-seat Parliament, which gal made is in doubt, and
be a second consecutive it used to vote down the some fear the country
term in office — and four proposals. The defeat could go down the same
more years of cutbacks brought the government’s road as Greece, which
and economic reforms. automatic resignation. has needed three bailouts
The government*s dra- The government’s fall was since 2010. The triumph of
matic collapse came less also a political setback for the leftist alliance will likely
than two weeks after it was the 19-nation eurozone’s give heart to anti-auster-
sworn in and raised ques- austerity strategy. The pol- ity forces in much bigger
tions about debt-heavy icy of cutbacks was de- neighbor Spain, where a
Portugal*s commitment manded by Germany and general election is sched-
to the fiscal discipline de- the others as a remedy for uled for Dec. 20.q
