Cameron: Reformed EU in UK’s best interest
British Prime Minister David Cameron has issued fresh warning against his country leaving the European Union.
Cameron, who keeps lauding a recent deal with the EU, says jobs would be at risk in Britain if the country votes to leave the 28-nation bloc.
"We are clearly better off inside a reformed European Union rather than take the leap in the dark", he said while addressing employees of defense giant BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire on Thursday.
"There are three million jobs that in some way depend on our trade in the European Union. Of course we would go on trading with the EU if we left but would that trade be at the same level”, he added.
Last week, the EU leaders in Brussels unanimously supported Cameron’s proposed reforms to keep Britain in the EU.
The premier in the past had cited global terrorism and the Russian interference in Ukraine as reason for Britain to remain in the EU bloc. Now, he has added economy and national security concerns in order to avoid a much-feared Brexit.
British voters will go to the polls in June to decide whether to leave the EU or stay in, a debate that has intensified since the 2015 general elections. Recent opinion polls so far have suggested that UK voters remain sharply divided on the matter.
Cameron is trying hard to satisfy voters’ concerns by saying that the UK wouldn't be forced to join the euro or surrender greater sovereignty to Brussels.
The EU was created in 1993 under the slogan “ever closure union” but many euroskeptic in Britain say Britain would prosper outside the bloc. Pro-Europeans warn the move would not only hurt the economy.
The bloc leaders also remained wary saying a Brexit would embolden other nations to follow suit, leading to a complete disintegration of the union.
Meanwhile, former British foreign secretary says it’s too late to reform the European Union and Britain’s continued presence there will risk the country’s security. “Leaving the EU would re-energize Britain”, David Owen said in an article for the Sun.
Owen said the vision of the European common market in the 1960s had been a good one but sovereignty has since been eroded, the euro is flawed. “There are many positive aspects to leaving the EU. We will make our own laws, will rediscover the skills of blue-water diplomacy and rise to the challenge of global markets”
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