Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom

Prime Minister David Cameron said his renegotiation of Britain's ties with the European Union was "bloody hard work" and refused to rule out campaigning for a British exit in a referendum if other EU leaders failed to grant him the concessions he wants. 

While ordinary European citizens are constantly urged to tighten the belt more and more due to the economic crisis, European Union officials have spent 103mln Euros on personal expenses in 2013, according to Daily Telegraph. 13,000 EU employees have been issued with special cards to pay for accommodation and entertainment while they are serving in Brussels or travelling for EU business.

British Prime Minister David Cameron intends to hold a referendum on the country's membership of the European Union around June of 2016, the Independent on July 26 reported.

Just as everybody was fearing a Grexit, Frexit, Brexit, the Austrians launched a petition to quit the EU. Activists who launched the petition argue that Austria would be better off economically without the EU and is on a drive to gather 100,000 signatures by July 1 required for the national parliament to consider the initiative.

The possibility of Britain leaving the European Union sometime in the future worries European bankers a great deal more than the prospect that Greece might be on its way out soon. 

Several of the biggest fund managers based in London are drawing up plans to move trillions of pounds of assets and thousands of jobs outside of Britain should the country vote to leave the EU in a referendum due by the end of 2017, the Sunday Times said. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 29 pledged a "constructive" role as Britain pushed for EU reforms and said she would not rule out changing treaties of the 28-nation community.

"Of course when you are convinced of an idea, you cannot say that treaty change is a total impossibility," she said at a Berlin joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Supporters of Britain's membership of the European Union will create a new group shortly to run the "Yes" campaign for a referendum Prime Minister David Cameron has promised by the end of 2017, four sources familiar with the plan told Reuters. 

The German Federal Government has suggested that it considers a British exit from the EU as a possibility.

Establishment parties in two of the European Union’s most important member states were licking their wounds on Monday following the triumph of anti-EU, anti-immigration parties in the European Parliament elections in Britain and France.