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21/01/2013
PM's Euro Speech Rescheduled
Downing Street has confirm that David Cameron’s long awaited speech on the UK and European will take place on Wednesday morning.
It had originally been scheduled last Friday, to take place in the Netherlands, but was postponed due to the Algerian hostage crisis.
The rearranged event will now take place in London as "it best fitted with his schedule".
Extracts from Mr Cameron's speech released on Thursday night - before it was postponed - indicated he intended to set out a "positive vision" for the future of the EU but to warn of a growing "gap" between the EU and its citizens "which represents a lack of democratic accountability and consent that is - yes - felt particularly acutely in Britain".
"If we don't address these challenges, the danger is that Europe will fail and the British people will drift towards the exit," he was to say.
"I do not want that to happen. I want the European Union to be a success and I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it."
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It had originally been scheduled last Friday, to take place in the Netherlands, but was postponed due to the Algerian hostage crisis.
The rearranged event will now take place in London as "it best fitted with his schedule".
Extracts from Mr Cameron's speech released on Thursday night - before it was postponed - indicated he intended to set out a "positive vision" for the future of the EU but to warn of a growing "gap" between the EU and its citizens "which represents a lack of democratic accountability and consent that is - yes - felt particularly acutely in Britain".
"If we don't address these challenges, the danger is that Europe will fail and the British people will drift towards the exit," he was to say.
"I do not want that to happen. I want the European Union to be a success and I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it."
(H)
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