http://www.smh.com.au/world/britain-threatens-to-leave-eu-20140116-hv8ob.html
Britain has told its European Union partners the EU's treaties were
"not fit for purpose" and there must be reform or it would quit the
bloc.
In the latest blast of euroscepticism from Conservatives in
Britain's coalition government, finance minister George Osborne said EU
treaties had to be changed to protect member states like his own that
don't use the euro.
The comments, made at a conference in London on reform of the
28-nation EU, are unlikely to be embraced by integrationists in
Brussels, who want Britain to remain in the bloc but have become
irritated by its demands for change.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European
Commission, accused countries such as Britain that have questioned the
bloc's freedom of movement rules of having a "narrow, chauvinistic idea
of the protection" of their interests - an indication of how tough
London may find it to win allies.
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