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Being outside the Euro does not exclude us from the new EU treaty changes

Ministers want us to believe that because Britain is not in the Euro, the Treaty changes being agreed to today by the politicians do not apply to the UK.

Nonsense.

Under the proposals for "stronger EU economic governance", UK budgets will become EU business.

The EU might not at this time be able to impose sanctions against the UK should they disapprove, but - according to paragraph 34 of the European Council's own report - this deal creates "a new legal framework .... applying to all EU Member States".

Forget the spin about how a mere £380 Million increase in our EU budget contributions is some kind of a victory.  Today's deal means new powers are transferred from Member States - including Britain - to Brussels.

Read the EU Commission's own account of how this new Treaty change gives them more powers here.

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