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Obama won’t bolster the Eurosceptic cause

UK PM David Cameron went to Washington to push for a US-EU trade deal and secure Barack Obama’s support for his demand for EU reforms. But Conservatives banking on Atlantic ties fail to realise America’s growing lack of interest in them, warns The Economist.

Published on 17 May 2013

Over the course of its lengthy obsession with escaping the European Union, the Conservative Party has often self-harmed. It has lost four leaders and three elections partly to rowing over the issue. Yet nothing in that riotous history is more perplexing than David Cameron’s experience in America last week.

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