“[There] is also an opportunity to start some of the discussion about the reform of the European Union… One thing throughout all of these will be constant – and that is my determination to deliver for all the British people a reform of the European Union so they get a proper choice in the in/out referendum that will hold before the end of the 2017,” Cameron said.
Cameron's Conservative Party, which won the UK general election on May 7, vowed to hold a referendum on British EU membership before 2017. Cameron seeks to revise his country's relations with the European Union before holding the vote. His proposals include reforming the system of contributions to the EU budget and giving national governments more powers to control the influx of migrants and the distribution of social benefits.
Friday is the second day of the two-day Eastern Partnership summit, designed to establish closer ties between the European Union and former Soviet republics, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
