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papa smurf · 10-05-2016, 08:22

Tory rift grows as Iain Duncan Smith claims Germany vetoed EU reforms

In an interview with the Sun published on Tuesday, Duncan Smith accuses Cameron of having allowed Germany to “veto” key parts of his EU reform renegotiation. Duncan Smith said Berlin exercised the “ultimate power” over what changes the prime minister sought from Brussels and was allowed to block the idea of a cap on foreign workers coming to the EU.

He said a key demand was ditched, at the behest of Berlin, from the draft of a speech by Cameron just hours before it was due to be delivered. “It’s like they were sitting in a room, even when they were not there. There was a spare chair for them – called the German chair. They have had a de facto veto over everything,” he told the newspaper.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...er-immigration

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