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Jak dodaje Agata Gostyńska z Centre for European Reform, inna kluczowa kwestia sporna dotyczy relacji między państwami strefy euro i tych spoza strefy oraz tego na jak długo powinien być zaciągany "hamulec migracyjny". - To są w dużej mierze kwestie techniczne, ale Cameron będzie walczył do końca o to, by uzyskać jak najlepsze dla Wielkiej Brytanii zapisy - mówi Gostyńska.

"My criticism is not necessarily with there being a referendum. My criticism is with there being a renegotiation and then a referendum," says John Springford, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform in London.

France, Germany and some other countries are “suspicious” that the UK really wants a veto for the City of London over EU regulation, according to Charles Grant, director of the Centre of European Reform.

Even strong EU supporters such as Charles Grant, director of the London-based thinktank Centre for European Reform, acknowledge that the "In" campaign will struggle to convince voters of the positive case for staying in the bloc. "There are many reasons to be pessimistic about the campaign," he told a Brussels audience. "The 'Out' campaign have jolly good arguments superficially... Big business is pathetic and cowardly."

"The worsening international backdrop has taken the wind out of the eurozone's sails," said Simon Tilford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a London think-tank. Mr Tilford said there is currently little risk of recession in the eurozone, but added that global growth appears to be slowing before Europe's recovery gained any vigor. "The problem is the eurozone never really recovered from the previous downturn," he said, referring to Europe's long debt crisis in recent years.
 

But for Simon Tilford, deputy director at the Centre for European Reform, the numbers aren’t helpful at all: "The whole idea of putting concrete figures on this is nonsense. It is impossible to be anywhere near as precise as the In and Out camps are attempting to be on this question."