Brits and EU

Some days ago British Prime Minister David Cameron, a self declared eurosceptic and himself facing a backlash from his own Tory eursceptics, is reported to have said that “We don’t want to hold up the eurozone doing what is necessary to solve the crisis as long as it doesn’t damage our national interests”. What a statement at such a delicate moment of the European Union’s very existance!

It seems he has forgotten that the EU is all about solidarity. But then, the UK never genuinely considered itself part of the EU. It was always the case of what it can get out of the EU (free trade… the single market). Maybe, with hindsight, it would have also been better for Europe had the French not lifted their veto on the UK’s membership way back in 1973!

Of course there is always the chance of the British themselves opting out of the EU in a national referendum. If that is the will of the British people, so be it!