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London to Ask Brussels to Tighten EU 'Emergency Brake' Policy - Reports

© AP Photo / Peter MacdiarmidBritain's Prime Minister David Cameron gestures as he unveils the Conservative party manifesto, in Swindon, England, Tuesday April 14, 2015.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron gestures as he unveils the Conservative party manifesto, in Swindon, England, Tuesday April 14, 2015. - Sputnik International
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to address the European Union with a request to tighten the program regulating the social benefits received by EU migrants, which is under development within the bloc, local media reported on Sunday.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron gestures as he unveils the Conservative party manifesto, in Swindon, England, Tuesday April 14, 2015. - Sputnik International
UK Could Agree on New Terms of EU Membership in February
LONDON (Sputnik) — Cameron is seeking to renegotiate the conditions of his country's EU membership before the so-called Brexit referendum. The so-called emergency brake is one of a number of alternatives that EU leaders have suggested instead of Cameron’s proposal of a four-year ban on in-work benefits for migrants.

According to the BBC, Cameron is expected to tell European Council President Donald Tusk during their upcoming meeting on the issue that the "brake" should be implemented immediately after the UK referendum on its EU membership.

Cameron is also expected to demand the brake would be in force long enough to cope with EU migration to the United Kingdom.

Cameron has pledged to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the bloc, referred to as an in/out vote, no later than late 2017. His four reform demands encompass boosting competitiveness by reducing bureaucratic red tape, exempting the United Kingdom from plans for an "ever closer union," stripping the euro of its sole official EU currency status and restricting in-work benefits to intra-EU migrants.

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