More lies from Downing Street
EU red lines will be secured - PM
8 October 2007
The Prime Minister has promised to ensure that the UK's "red lines" on the EU treaty are honoured when leaders meet in Brussels next week.
Speaking to journalists at his monthly Downing Street press conference, Gordon Brown said that he would be working hard to ensure that concessions awarded on areas such as policing and social security were written "into the detail" of forthcoming EU Reform Treaty. If these "red lines" were not protected then the UK would apply a veto or else hold a referendum, he said.
The PM said:
"I believe that the red lines will be achieved and we will show that we have managed in the course of our negotiations to persuade our European partners that what we want is not only right for us but right for them.
"If that is not the case, then there will either be a veto or there will be a referendum.''
EU leaders will meet at the European Council from 15 October to consider the draft text of an amending treaty agreed in principle at a meeting in June this year. The prospect of a new EU constitution was abandoned following rejections by referendum in France and the Netherlands in 2005.
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