Osborne says EU treaty veto helps protect UK interests

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

How is the mood in Europe. Is Britain being made out as the enemy yet?

Currently the Brits must take it from all sides. From ALL sides. Not a single one in their support.

It is said that since the war ended in 1945 and the union was formed, never before had a single nation been that vigorously been singled out.

I can understand some of the British arguments for staying out. I only question whether the assunmptions on which these decisions base upon, are really that realistic and will hold their ground - this remains to be seen. Not a few people in brussel maybe would be happy if the union finally would get rid of Britain. The actual events on the summit however have little to do with high strategy, though. Imo Cameron simply overbid the cards he had, that simple, falling victim to a total failure in judging his situation at the summit correctly. He gambled, and lost.

Whether the EU's intended future way will work or not, also is doubtful, of course. I still hope it collapses. I only wsnt to minimise the costs for Germany until then, since after a possible collapse the losses will already be considerably anyway. We must not needlessly waste reserves on the way there - we might need them then.