If the measures in respect of greater economic union or perhaps fiscal union or shared responsibility for debts were to take the form of a European Union amendment treaty and involved the transfer of competences or powers from this country to the EU, the referendum lock would be triggered. If the eurozone countries choose to do their own thing and have their own intergovernmental treaty, which they can do quite distinct from any move to amend either the treaty on European Union or the treaty on the functioning of the European Union, we would not have a say—not if they chose to go down that route.
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
David Lidington
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 January 2011.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union Bill.
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