INTERVIEW WITH MEP ANDREW DUFF (ALDE, UK) : 'THERE WILL HAVE TO BE A REFERENDUM IN BRITAIN'.

David Cameron is supposed to give a speech in the middle of January on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the UK's entry in the EU. The most fervent Eurosceptics are pushing him to take a firm stand on the UK's place in the EU and to give Brits the choice. Meanwhile, Cameron has said that it would not be in the interest of the UK to leave the EU since the country would have to obey the rules of the single market without having any say about them. Several prominent EU movers and shakers were irritated by this attitude. Europolitics asked Andrew Duff (ALDE, UK) for his take on his country's place in a Union, which he wants to federalise further.

What do you expect from Cameron's upcoming speech?

He will have to try to placate his own party but his own party is extremely nationalistic and he himself is a genuine Eurosceptic. He thinks, I suppose, that it will be a sort of common market plus. It's not a question of having less of the current EU because the current form isn't going to survive the economic crisis. If we can salvage the project, the Union that will come out of the crisis is going to be substantially and...