Debt crisis live: Britain won't cede more power to EU

Fri, 06/29/2012 - 10:28 EDT - Telegraph

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Prime Minister David Cameron seeks to claw back powers after 'remorseless logic of having a single currency' forces Germany to accede to Italian and Spanish demands for eurozone aid to cut borrowing costs.

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UK threatens to block new EU treaty if demands not met
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he would block a new European Union treaty proposed by France and Germany aimed at saving the euro, if London's demands are not met.He said if eurozone countries wanted to use "European institutions" to rescue the single currency, they would have to agree to safeguards demanded by Britain, which has not adopted the euro.Cameron has come under huge pressure from the right wing of his Conservative Party to claw back powers from Brussels if the EU were to negotiate a new treaty.
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