European leaders to Britain: Stay in EU

Several European leaders have urged Britain to stay in the European Union following Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership. Speaking on a top-level panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned that outside the 27-member bloc Britain would be “an island somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between the United States and Europe.” Cameron’s promise to hold a public vote on whether Britain should remain part of the European Union has somewhat hijacked the agenda in Davos, previously expected to consider ways out of the three-year economic crisis. Cameron denied Britain planned to “turn our backs” on Europe and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the EU as a union would be more powerful with London still involved.

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