Le Royaume-Uni devrait prendre une décision sur l’Europe

Infographie : F. Descheemaekere

[Euractiv]

Ces derniers jours, le discours anti-européen du gouvernement britannique s’est intensifié. Quels sont les effets d’un tel discours sur la place de la Grande-Bretagne dans l’UE ?

Under mounting pressure from the right of his party, British Prime Minister David Cameron has given his strongest hints yet that he's planning to call a referendum on the UK's ties with the European Union. British eurosceptics are hoping this will be an opportunity to claw back powers from Brussels - and to avoid getting further entangled in costly solutions to the eurozone crisis. At the Conservative Party conference earlier this week, Cameron also threatened to disrupt EU budget talks unless other member states could agree to "proper control" of spending.
Speaking to the BBC, Cameron said the budget was a "classic example" of where the UK should "probably start to draw new lines."

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