| The European Union must not turn into a clique that discriminates against countries that don't use the euro, UK prime minister David Cameron has warned. In a speech on Tuesday setting out his vision for Britain's future role in Europe, Mr Cameron spelled out that the European Union and the eurozone "are not the same thing" and that needs to be accepted by countries that are within the euro-area.
It is a matter of "cardinal importance" that there is recognition that the EU is a union "with more than one currency", Mr Cameron said, and those countries such as Britain that choose not to use the single currency do not bear any costs of supporting the euro. He warned that if the EU were to evolve into a "single currency club" where countries outside of the euro are pushed aside and over-ruled then "that would not be a club for us"...............................................Full Article: Source
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