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DAVID CAMERON’S SETTING off on a 48-hour tour of European capitals this morning - to push for reforms he says are necessary before Britain holds its in-out EU referendum.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, speaking ahead of the Paris leg of the visit, described the referendum move as “very risky”
“We will listen to him and see what he proposes,” he added.
“He launched this referendum project, it is something very risky. We hope Britain stays in the European Union, nevertheless there are things that need to be improved.”
After winning this month’s election with a narrow surprise majority, Cameron’s Conservative-only government will publish its first bill paving the way for a referendum by 2017 on whether Britain should leave the European Union.
Cameron said yesterday he hoped the measure would pass in “extra quick time” and has not ruled out holding the referendum vote next year.
“I find this process quite dangerous,” Fabius said of the vote.
The British population has gotten used to being told: ‘Europe is a bad thing’, and the day they are asked to decide, the risk is that they say Europe is a bad thing.
Fabius said Britain would “certainly” have the most to lose if it left the EU, but that the bloc would also suffer.
Britain “is a military power, a diplomatic power. If such an important country leaves Europe it will give an extremely negative impression of Europe.”
Cameron will also visit Berlin and Warsaw on his trip. He’ll also try and convince the Dutch premier to back his proposed changes to the UK’s membership.
- © AFP 2015. With reporting by Daragh Brophy.
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With so many parents looking to adopt. I wonder if these children would be better if they were removed earlier and adopted. I worked in a drug addled part of the city for a long time. These kids have no childhood and no future.
This quicker route to adoption has come into place in the uk. To be honest, while it may sound great, you must remember that the legal rights of the natural parents being removed permanently and irreversibly is a big deal. To do this in a very quick fashion could lead to huge issues.
the threshold of abandonment to sever parental rights is (thanks to recent SC jurisprudence) very high
Will Tulsa be robbing kids of parents who test positive for alcohol? This crowd care nothing for the bond of a mother and child and our drunk on their power since the children’s referendum
If you seen the amount of strung out parents with kids in their prams in town I think you would have a different view.
T ool
U don’t know what ur talking about, we fostered our daughter when she was 6, she is now 25, is a social care worker with adults with disabilities, God only knows where she would b if she was left with her mother at that time she was 31/2 when when taken into care and would still at times have problems with her mother which she hasn’t see. Since she was 18
Agree in the case of severe heroin addiction
I don’t think so. Many of these kids are placed with family members, which gives the parents a chance to maybe clean up their act and stay close to their kids. I think in a lot of cases earlier adoptions would mean the parents would have no reason to get clean.
Lisa Tulsa don’t place them with family members remember the story of the loving grandparents they walked all over.
What’s ‘severe heroin addiction’? Are you ok with mild or occasional heroin use?
Joe lets say your on methadone your addicted to heroin and some pen pusher decides to take the only decent thing in your life away. Methadone is far worse than recreational drugs. Severe heroin addiction is shooting up pure heroin
Poor kids do not have a chance or a childhood when you see the role models they have. They unknown to themselves are tomorrow’s criminals. More attention and resources are given to having a TV and Dog Licence !
If you choose drugs over your kids then they should be taken into care
Journal low life
So dublin is a town now is it ye tool get ur facts right
Relax! Have a cuppa and listen to the Dubliners singing ‘Dirty Auld Town’
james who are you having a go at there?
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