Britain Should Leave the EU

Britain should leave the EU

Union, says former head of the European Commission, Jacques Delors.

Britain has since the 1980s been a discount in membership dues to the EU and has opposed closer political integration.

- The British are solely concerned with their economic interests and nothing else. They may be offered another form of partnership, says Delors to the Dutch newspaper Handelsblatt.

A majority of residents in the UK have the polls said that they will leave the EU.

Prime Minister David Cameron says athan still supports membership, but want the option to withdraw from important appointments.

- If the British would not support closer integration in Europe, we can still be friends, but on a different basis, says Delors, who envisages a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU as a possible solution.

Delors was president of the European Commission for three periods between 1985 and 1994.