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As David Cameron prepares to travel to Brussels for a crucial European summit to discuss his renegotiation plans, a poll has found that the British public is now evenly split about the prospect of a British exit from the EU.
It came as the EU referendum bill last night passed through the House of Lords, meaning that Mr Cameron could potentially hold his vote in June next year.
David Cameron has promised to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the EU. The process is secretive, but here's what we know about what Cameron will try and secure:
It came as the EU referendum bill last night passed through the House of Lords, meaning that Mr Cameron could potentially hold his vote in June next year.
David Cameron has promised to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the EU. The process is secretive, but here's what we know about what Cameron will try and secure:
- Prevent Eurozone states from "ganging up" on Britain in access to the single market as they seek to integrate further
- Excusing Britain from the principle of ever closer union
- Giving more power to national parliaments to ‘red card’ EU plans
- Denying EU migrants access to in-work benefits for four years
- Ending child benefit payments to migrants’ children overseas
- No free movement for new EU states until their economies develop
- Cut red tape, complete the single market in services and sign major trade deals with the US and Asia
- Full on’ treaty change is essential
- The process is followed by an in-out referendum by the end of 2017