EU Chief Juncker Urges Britons Not To Abandon Decades Of Mutual Gains

Greece is on the right path to exit the crisis and must take ownership of the reforms programme it has agreed with its official lenders, European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said on Tuesday.

Speaking in Brussels, Mr Juncker had earlier told reporters: “The British policy makers and British voters have to know that there will be no kind of any renegotiation”. In the western city of Bristol, Prime Minister David Cameron said the country’s security was enhanced by European Union membership, while Leave campaigner Boris Johnson visited London’s Billingsgate fish market.

He said, “History has taught us a simple lesson: Europe is stronger together”.

French President Francois Hollande also urged people to be aware that Brexit would bring “a very serious risk of Britain losing its access to the single market and everything that goes with the European economic area”.

“The departure of such a country that is geographically, historically, politically involved in Europe, would undoubtedly bring serious consequences”.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, speaks next to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a joint news conference and after their meeting in Athens, on Tuesday, June 21, 2016.

Mr Juncker’s comments describing the Prime Minister’s reform package as the “maximum” he could receive was leaped on by the Vote Leave campaign. Who put him in charge of us in this way?

“If we stay in, there is no prospect of any further change”, Mr Johnson said.

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The high stakes in Britain’s referendum have led to speculation about the fate of a series of political figures, not least British Prime Minister David Cameron, if Britain leaves the 28-nation union.

“We have been told from the horse’s mouth that any hope of further change is absolute illusion”.

Pro-Leave Conservative MP Michael Gove said it shows the Remain campaign promises of further reform after a Remain vote “will not happen”.