Two-speed Europe will allow different paths for members

David Cameron’s ‘clarifications’ will make changes to the fundamental nature of the EU, writes Ann Cahill Europe Correspondent

THE 50-odd pages of detail that a small cadre of representatives of the UK government and the EU institutions have produced can be seen as thing of smoke and mirrors, offering a typically complicated solution to a multi-faceted problem — or a veritable rewriting of the fundamental direction of the European Union.

David Cameron, doing his best to solve a mirage of the EU that decades of eurosceptic media and politicians have created, has certainly come up with an answer to many of the objections launched against the union.