Britain will be given the chance to reform its relationship with eurozone countries when they form a “United States of Europe” in years to come, one of Brussels’ top officials said last night.
However, Britain must lower its expectations of what can be achieved, and forget talk about “opt-outs, renegotiations and referenda”, said Viviane Reding, the vice-president of the European Commission. She said that Britain must also accept existing rules on freedom of movement across all 28 countries and, rather than blame migrants for the state of its education and welfare systems, should improve them.
At a lecture in Cambridge, Ms Reding suggested that Britain must wake up to the fact that the EU was an economic “goldmine” which the UK would be blocked from