Lord Owen says the “limited, tinkering reforms” of the EU which David Cameron envisages by 2017 will not suffice.

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“The situation will be very different to the 1975 UK referendum. BREXIT will by then be forced on to the agenda in a very risky way.”

Speech by the Rt Hon Lord Owen to LSE German Symposium on Wednesday, 11 March 2015 in reply to the Symposium question, “to what extent is the nation state an antiquated notion?”

SPEECH BY THE RT HON LORD OWEN TO LSE GERMAN SYMPOSIUM ON WEDNESDAY

 

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