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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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David Cameron was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, he is a significant figure in British politics. His time in office was marked by the UK's vote to leave the European Union, known as Brexit. more

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“Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.”

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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 demos.”

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“It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.”

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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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“Simply asking the British people to carry on accepting a European settlement over which they have had little choice is a path to ensuring that when the question is finally put - and at some stage it will have to be - it is much more likely that the British people will reject the EU.”

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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 beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.”

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