David Cameron Will Back Down in Fight with EU, Say Officials

A senior Belgian official has suggested that the Prime Minister will ultimately back down now that elections, and forming a government, were behind him.

"We will wait until some weeks after the elections," said the official. "It is sometimes easier to discuss after elections."

Belgian negotiators are convinced that Mr Cameron's hard line opposition to giving more sovereignty up to the EU, a pledge written into his coalition government's agreement, will be sacrificed in the interests of pragmatism.

The senior source observed that no EU agreements would ever be possible if all European leaders stuck to the "totality" of their election manifestoes.'

Read more...