UK to EU: Drop Dead

UK to EU: Drop Dead

We can only hope . . . .

Telegraph | News | Britain threatens veto on EU

The Government is clearly concerned that the latest draft treaty being prepared by the Italian government, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, could threaten Britain's "red lines".

These are:

Preventing European defence policy from breaking away from Nato;
Ensuring that the European foreign minister answers to governments rather than to the European Commission;
Preserving Britain's veto over taxation;
Fending off EU powers over areas of criminal law.
Britain is also objecting to any possible loss of control over North Sea oil and seeking to prevent a new Charter of Fundamental Rights giving European courts further powers over British law. Other countries have also raised objections. These include the demand by Poland and Spain to be given greater voting weight, and calls by the smaller states to preserve an EU commissioner for each country.