BUCHAREST - ROMANIA - Do we want a new place in Europe? There's a whole world of independant countries out there, some of them even have functioning economies. The EU have completely lost their way, we should have nothing more to do with it until sanity returns. Europhiles remind me of religious people. In fact I think being a Europhile is a kind of religion. If you give some of the overwhelming scientific evidence of how old the world really is to a religious person who believes the world is only 4000 years old, they will still believe the world is 4000 years old no matter what you tell them. Tell a Europhile who is frightened that we could not survive out of the EU, that the Swiss or Norwegians are better off for being out of the EU, they will still be as worried & convinced we couldn't survive out of the EU as before you spoke to them.Yet they wouldn't be able to provide any evidence why they believe this. Without even understanding their own reasons why. Yet we don't even have enough money to fund our own police, hospitals & schools properly & pensioners who've paid taxes & national insurance for 45 years barely exist on their pension.
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Irish Times Odds on Britain leaving the EU have shortened
"In the end, Cameron miscalculated", writes the paper's London correspondent Mark Hennessy. "Angela Merkel did not make the concessions he believed she would. But without a guarantee the financial transaction tax would be killed off. Cameron could not have come home – so he had no choice but to say no to the deal."
El País The cracking of Cameron gives wins to the Eurosceptics
"The crisis serves to weaken a prime minister who does not have the full support of his own party due to the rise of Eurosceptic sentiment and the perception that pragmatism has led Cameron to change the sidewalk. The fiasco of yesterday may mark his career. In the short term has become a hero in your party. A retreat would make him lose that halo."
Le Monde Great Britain isolated like never before
"Let's be fair: The British are nothing to do with the crisis of the euro. They bear no responsibility for the inability of the leaders of the area to solve their problems of sovereign debt. But there is a sense that the British are well away from a movement towards greater economic integration and budget. They are not. They do not believe in the European idea. They are unrelated to this project now well becalmed, but yet it seems more essential than ever to forge a singular entity that can exist as such among the other centres of power of the 21st century."
Germany
Der Spiegel The man who said no to Europe
"British prime minister David Cameron has completely isolated his country on the European stage – and many in his country applaud him for it. But he will soon have to prove that London still has clout in the UK and that his no to fiscal union wasn't just a bone thrown to Eurosceptics."
Inside, a comment piece by Roland Nelles says: "The UK is standing petulantly alone, no longer wanting to play."
Die Welt The end of Britain's EU membership
"Beginning of the end of Britain's EU membership" is the headline on its main online story. It quotes the president elect of the European parliament, Martin Schulz, as saying: "I doubt whether Britain stays in the long term in the EU. Britain has never been isolated in the EU sun." He believes Eurosceptics will now seize it as an opportunity to force the UK out of the EU.
UK
Financial Times Britain opts for the empty chair
"Forcing the eurozone to set up its own parallel union will not protect the City … By precipitately wielding his veto, Mr Cameron may well have hastened the formation of such a bloc, to the detriment of British interests."
The prospect is of a joyless union of penalties, punishments, disciplines and seething resentments, with the centrist elites who run the EU increasingly under siege from anti-EU populists on the right and left everywhere in Europe.
"For the first time in the history of the EU, the Germans are now in charge. But they are also more isolated than before," said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform thinktank. "The British are certainly more marginal than before. Their influence has never been lower in my lifetime."
Whether or not the summit has saved the euro remains, of course, to be seen. At a single stroke, however, it has transformed Britain's place in Europe. With the fate of the currency at stake in the EU's worst crisis, Cameron opted for a fight and lost, placing the interests of the City of London before the European priority. Battling for Britain and wielding my veto in the Great British national interest, Cameron averred. There are senior UK officials who believe the prime minister betrayed the British national interest by picking the wrong fight at the wrong time, losing, and forfeiting a seat at the table that will determine the future shape of the EU
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