"Cameron pressing EU to accept UK membership terms"
British Prime Minister David Cameron is pressing other EU leaders to accept his terms for deciding Britain’s membership in the bloc at an upcoming summit in Brussels.
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk who will chair the crucial summit on 17 December announced that Cameron was in a hurry to resolve the vexed issues on Britain’s future in the EU before Christmas.
Tusk said he agreed personally with Cameron on the drive to conclude the UK-EU negotiations before Christmas but he also voiced reservations about the highly fraught negotiations since central and complex issues in the British list of demands remained unresolved.
“In fact, his personal opinion and mine were and are that December is better than February,” Tusk told the Guardian, referring to the next two EU summits. “If he is ready to take this risk, I will be helpful. But then, it would be his risk … If Cameron is sure December is better for him as the organiser of this referendum, I will be helpful and I am ready to convince our officials,” he said.
Tusk said he and Cameron believed a quick deal was feasible politically, but that there were major legal problems with UK demands for a much looser relationship with the rest of the EU.
EU membership has long been a contentious topic in Britain. Eurosceptics, who believe the UK would be better off outside the political and economic union, seek the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
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