Cameron held two days of talks with EU leaders, culminating in a 24-hour extension from Tusk after a breakthrough regarding the \u201cemergency break<\/em>\u201d on migrant benefits was reached on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n Tusk tweeted on Monday evening: \u201cTomorrow around noon I will table proposal for a new settlement for #UKinEU. Good progress last 24 hours but still outstanding issues.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Cameron is expected to brief his cabinet on Tuesday morning before the negotiations are made public. It will be the first step to a deal, which Cameron hopes to secure before the next European Council meeting in February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The PM has also been told he must launch a diplomatic offensive over the next two weeks to ensure that Eastern European leaders agree with his plans to deny benefits to migrants for their first four years in Britain.<\/p>\n Senior Whitehall figures have said the proposed \u201cemergency brake<\/em>\u201d must be agreed with members of the Visegr\u00e1d group, which comprises Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, whose citizens could be affected by the measures.<\/p>\n Visegr\u00e1d group leaders are worried that agreeing to the terms could affect their chances of winning in domestic elections.<\/p>\n \u201cThe prime minister will be focusing quite heavily on the Visegr\u00e1d group over the next two weeks,\u201d<\/em> one Whitehall source told the Guardian.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is clear that there are nerves about how Poles, Czechs, Hungarians and workers from the Baltic States working in the UK might vote in elections back home.\u201d<\/p>\n Other sources told the paper the negotiations looked promising, and were encouraged by the progress made over the weekend.<\/p>\n However, the talks were criticized by Euroskeptics, who called the weekend a \u201cchoreographed charade<\/em>,\u201d which allowed Cameron to appear as though he is fighting for Britain\u2019s best interest.<\/p>\n Paul Nuttal from UKIP said the weekend had been stage-managed and was full of \u201ctheatrics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe theatrics and drama of David Cameron\u2019s sham renegotiation continues and he is playing us for fools.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He told the BBC: \u201cIf the deal is that we are allowed to do it when we want, then yes, but if we have to phone a friend, indeed in this case 27 friends, to decide that we can put our foot on the brake, then no driver in their right mind would get into a car with those sorts of conditions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European Council President Donald Tusk will table proposals for a \u201cnew settlement\u201d for the UK\u2019s membership of the European Union on Tuesday, following a weekend of intense negotiations with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron held two days of talks with EU leaders, culminating in a 24-hour extension from Tusk after a breakthrough regarding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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