Leaked EU deal text reveals no progress from Cameron in Brussels

Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, a pro-EU think-tank, agreed the changes were largely cosmetic and designed to pander to the sensitivities of core-Europe. "The euro theologians in France and elsewhere have got the text to reassert the fiction that every country bar the UK and Denmark is on its way towards the euro," he said. "Also a couple of words have been added to reassure the Belgians that ever closer union is a lovely idea. But despite a few symbolic alternations, the substance of Cameron's deal remains as it was."