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EU Referendum

Asked to comment further on what Chancellor Merkel had said regarding the European Constitution referendum, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he had nothing further to add to what he had said earlier in the day. It should be taken step by step, and the first main issue that Europe would have to address was what the responses of the French and the Dutch were following their referendum.

Put that Chancellor Merkel was proposing not a complete treaty, but rather, a bureaucratic "tidy up", and her suggestion was that it would not require national referendum and that it could be agreed at parliamentary level, the PMOS replied that it was unwise to get drawn into running commentaries, and he added this topic would run from now until the EU Council in June. It was therefore better to see what actually was proposed and what the response of countries was.

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Meanwhile the government should be urgently pressed to hold a cost benefit analysis of our membership of the EU, given the endemic waste and financial corruption within the EU and the diversion of British taxpayers money down that particular drain.
Comment by graham wood — 19 Feb 2007 on 3:49 pm | Link
Meanwhile we should be pressing the government to hold a cost benefit analysis of our membership of the EU so that no more British taxpayer’s money goes down that particular drain.
Comment by graham wood — 19 Feb 2007 on 3:52 pm | Link

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