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Comment: A good deal

After an unprecedented negotiation marathon in Brussels, returns to Prime Minister Cameron with an agreement back to London, for he advertise wants to. It has all been worth it, says Christoph Hasselbach.

The remaining governments are London far met. You have toads swallowed. But that was right. The British economy needs the EU. The EU needs but also the British. You bring Europe to an economic, fiscal, diplomatic and military weight that the EU would be missing otherwise. And especially the German would be without them quite, alone among reformresistenten petitioners, especially on Dauertransfers apart.

Probably the most contested point was the limitation of social benefits for EU foreigners, a Problem mainly for some Eastern European EU States, from which many people in the UK are drawn to work. In London, the alleged Sozialmissbrauch clearly exaggerated. The EU-foreigners use the British state much more as they relate to him.

DW correspondent Christoph Hasselbach

However, it has been shown that other States also have an interest in Changes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has, for example, the claim clearly supported, Kindergeldzahlungen to EU-foreigners whose children are in the home life, the local standard of living accordingly. The Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen claimed finally that it was his idea, and called it “a flower in my garden”. Typical, perhaps, for the mood in the EU, and also unfair, that the British Prime Minister Cameron the beatings for plugging needs, while others still benefit.

Now Cameron “sell”

The biggest obstacle on the English side, but probably less such concrete problems, but a General feeling of isolation. Even if one argues that no country is today sovereign is, that in contrary to the European merger more self-assertion in the world saves as the Isolation, remains Cameron nothing else, with these powers of perception. He is now all of his Talent need to get the agreement of his fellow countrymen to sell. The broadsides of the EU-enemies in his own Cabinet, and the EU-skeptic press will now be up to the Referendum to stop.

Every generous agreement is useless if it is not the owner of the British people. The Worst would be that the EU would be the UK, up to the limit of self-denial, made some concessions – and at the end agree the British in the Referendum but then for the exit.

Then there would be probably no more Hold. Then could any other skeptical Nations to emerge. But at least other States with exit threatens to also wishes to enforce. At the end would be of a European “Union” in the sense of the word, not much left of it.

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It is tragic that the disputes with Britain in the midst of the refugee crisis fall. The British – but also to the other Europeans – see how helpless the EU in the crisis countries. Many have the impression that only the first Chairman of national Action really brings something. And especially the British have a particular Problem with the open refugee policy of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany should be in a few years, several million refugees and migrants to EU nationals, have the right to in the UK to settle. It would be from the British point of view, unwanted immigration through the back door. British politicians have repeatedly stressed, the youngest lobe of the opponents of the EU in the polls is due to the fact.

A Referendum this summer, under the impression of once again, Thousands of migrants a day, the uncontrolled in the EU flock, might have been for this reason, negative out. Therefore it would be a slightly later Referendum better, if Europe is to – hopefully – the situation is better under control.

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