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Treaty change gives EU more power - including over Britain

Nick Clegg claims in the FT that the new EU treaty has no direct bearing on the UK.

Do you suppose Mr Clegg has read the small print of the European Council report, on which any future draft of the new treaty will draw? Paragraph 34 says there's to be a "new legal framework .... applying to all EU Member States".

The clue is in that word "all".

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