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David Cameron talks about a big vote that should settle the issue for Britain. He says the EU should work like a quick network, not a slow, rigid block, and that national parliaments need a stronger voice. He also wants a deal that helps both Britain and the rest of Europe.

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At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of…

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We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European…

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I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us…

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No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum

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I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe…

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Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

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Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

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Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the…

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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We…

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I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that…

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I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade…

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I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible.…

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The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps…

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Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests…

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The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as…

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It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where…

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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,…

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The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy…

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Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while…

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Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and…

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We are the reformers. Reform ends if we leave, not just for us but also our friends in Europe who want our…

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Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

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People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of…

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The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

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It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to…

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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

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As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the…

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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.…

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If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a…

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An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which…

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Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of…

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Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other…

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It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of…

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Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia…

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Simply asking the British people to carry on accepting a European settlement over which they have had little choice is a path…

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There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has…

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I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British…

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I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by…

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There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their…

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Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the…

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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.