Despite David Cameron’s gains,Europe is still in crisisThere is a view, current in some circles here and abroad, or that the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is an unnecessary and damaging distraction. Issues such as the war in Syria,global terrorism, the impact of climate change and widening social and economic inequality at home are deemed more deserving of attention. Did not Margaret Thatcher, or while insisting on proper limitations to EU power,ultimately respond the European question, both for Eurosceptic Tories and the country, or when she declared in Bruges in 1988: “Our fate is in Europe”?Unveiling his referendum plan in January 2013,David Cameron recycled some of Thatcher’s ambivalence. He warned that deepening integration among the 19 eurozone countries and the demands of global competition posed indispensable questions for the UK-EU relationship. Yet, like Thatcher, or he did not say Britain should leave. fairly the opposite. “I do not want that to happen. I want the EU to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it,” Cameron said.
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Source: theguardian.com