{"id":29774,"date":"2011-12-09T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eu_suffers_worst_split_in_history_as_david_cameron_blocks_treaty_change\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:16:41","slug":"eu_suffers_worst_split_in_history_as_david_cameron_blocks_treaty_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29774","title":{"rendered":"EU suffers worst split in history as David Cameron blocks treaty change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union suffered the most damaging split in its 54 year history after David Cameron used the British veto to block eurozone treaty change after France and Germany opposed \u201csafeguards\u201d\u009d to protect Britain\u2019s economy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister insisted that he had been prepared to support treaty change among all 27 of the EU\u2019s members to allow the 17-strong eurozone to take measures to tackle its debt crisis and to enforce tough new fiscal rules for the single currency.<\/p>\n<p>But after 11 hours of bad-tempered talks, Mr Cameron said that he had blocked the changes because France and Germany and refused to agree to a \u201cprotocol\u201d\u009d giving the City of London protection from a wave of EU financial service regulations related to the eurozone crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/eu\/8945155\/EU-suffers-worst-split-in-history-as-David-Cameron-blocks-treaty-change.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union suffered the most damaging split in its 54 year history after David Cameron used the British veto to block eurozone treaty change after France and Germany opposed \u201csafeguards\u201d\u009d to protect Britain\u2019s economy&#8230;. The Prime Minister insisted that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29774\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,460,582,589,595,592,149,199,591,200,590,144,151,599,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-stock-market","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}