CBI calls for EU reform - papers 24th Oct

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BRITAIN is being urged by business to use its leadership role as president of the European Union to push for reform and free trade at this week's heads of government summit at Hampton Court, according to this morning's papers.

Sir Digby Jones, Director-General of the Confederation of British Imdustry (CBI), says Tony Blair, who is to chair the summit, must stick to his principles rather than allowing the EU to retreat into its old ways for the sake of an easier agreement, reports the Times. In a speech to the CBI’s manufacturing dinner in Birmingham today, Jones is expected to say: “The ideologies of Old Europe have condemned hundreds of millions of people to the economic slow track, while the United States has accelerated into the distance, with India and China coming up on the rails. “The only way for Eur...

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