Europe is in crisis: this is no time for petty-mindedness | Timothy Garton Ash

If David Cameron shows he cares about the EU, he may find our partners more receptive to his demands

‘Ask not what Britain can do for Europe. Ask what Europe can do for Britain!” Thus David Cameron’s bathetic inversion of John F Kennedy’s famous rhetorical trope. This at a time when the European Union faces one of the largest challenges in its history, with its nations staggering under the burden of desperate migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

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