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DAVID Cameron’s stalled EU talks suffered another blow as Poland’s leader said they do not see “eye to eye” over his planned benefit cuts.
Mr Cameron failed to get Beata Szydlo to agree to halt access to handouts for new arrivals for four years as they held an overnight meeting in capital Warsaw.
The issue is Mr Cameron’s key immigration demand.
Persuading the EU’s eastern states, whose hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK receive the benefits, is crucial to any hope of success.
But Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said: “If Mr Cameron wants to separate different categories according to the country they come from, he will violate the EU principle of the free movement of people.”
Mr Cameron’s problems mounted when Brussels diplomats also claimed Britain was totally isolated on the benefits demand last night, with all 27 other EU states now opposing it.
The bitter blow sends him back to the drawing board on the biggest issue for voters ahead of next week’s EU leaders’ summit on the UK’s membership.
Last week he delayed any hopes of a new settlement until February next year at the earliest, also pushing back his promised in-out referendum.
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This what happens when you play a winning hand ( £11 billion net) badly. He didn't ask for enough and got even less.
Everybody knows in a hard bargaining situation that you demand the moon to get a piece of the cheese.
The clamour to leave can only get louder.
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