nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160126-173621 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160126s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160126-173621 doi eng 342 23 Duff, Andrew Author aut David Cameron’s EU reform claims: If not ‘ever closer union’, what? Duff, Andrew Verfassungsblog 2016-01-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier UK Prime Minister David Cameron claims that the reforms he seeks for Britain will be good for the European Union as a whole. That proposition deserves examination. Here we focus on only one, but the most totemic of his demands – namely that the UK wins a ‘formal, legally-binding and irreversible’ exemption from the EU’s historic mission of ‘ever closer union of the peoples of Europe’. Jobs and immigration might stir the masses in the referendum campaign, but it is the issue of ‘ever closer union’ that divides most sharply the sovereignists from the federalists and could, if mishandled, do severe collateral damage to the rest of the EU. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 brexit David Cameron EU reform European Integration Ever Closer Union Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/david-camerons-eu-reform-claims-if-not-ever-closer-union-what/ raw object