The Guardian: MPs and Foreign Office officials alarmed over possible clash of in/out vote with Britain’s turn to lead member states. Prime Minister David Cameron promised an in/out referendum by the end of 2017 but the real problem is that the UK Presidency of the EU will start on 1st July 2017. For this reason, former member of the cabinet of the President of the European Council and current British MEP Richard Corbett said that the referendum would turn UK’s presidency of EU into a ‘farce'”. Read fulla rticle and other reactions here.

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