So I have recently been watching the news and I have heard multiple times that David Cameron is being called a coward accross the EU. The question is was his move in any way a move of cowardliness? Personally I think anyone with the balls to stand up for their country against the entire European Union has a lot more balls then any other leader in the EU.

Its funny that as Canadian analysts and other political analysts in the US and other non-EU countries have suggested the EU might be headed for collapse. That it comes as any surprise that the UK wouldn't want to further integrate themselves into the EU without tons of safe guards and guarantees to ensure that the UK wouldn't be dragged down if the EU imploded.

I'm not 100% of all the details of the plan that the UK turned down. However the CBC stated big issues for the UK was the fact that the EU wants to build a single European Economy in which all countries national budgets will need to be approved by the European Commission and countries that over spend could be penalized and such. Other issues came up that the bill didn't provide any financial security to the UK as mentioned above and such.

David Cameron says "we're never going to give up this kind of sovereignty that these countries are having to give up."amongst other things. So is David Cameron really a coward for not supporting a move that would further integrate the UK with the EU which at the moment is going down. Or does he have balls of steel to actually stand up to the rest of Europe and say No?

He's not standing up for anything, he's just puffing his feathers for a show. Behind the lines, will most likely crawl back and beg to be brought back in should something mentionable actually happen as a result of this display.

He's trying to get dem votes.

If by "coward" you mean "someone with a shred of common sense", then yes.

I wouldn't name him a coward... Rather a fool who thinks Britain is still the best, biggest, richest....etc country in europe. What isn't true. He wants all the good things of the EU but when there is something they won't get better of they run away. We don't need the Brits in the EU, so if they want to stay away let them do so... We wont miss them

Well frankly I think he is worried that being more integrated they would likley create a tax on the financial system and London is dependent on the Fin sector.

Also, it only makes sense to give up control over your fiscal policy to technocrats in Europe if you share the same currency.

The UK does not, so it can manage its economy how it wants, as it does not have serious effects on everyone else, unlike Italy going bankrupt.

Plus the British people like EU but do not want to further integrate.

And joel, the EU isn't going down (and won't in the near future). There will always be an union between the biggest countries of europe because of the good things you get out of such an union. The problem is all the negative speculation from outside europe ( against the euro and the countries). I think they should all stop with the negativsm and let the EU do their work. The union isn't going away and the euro neither.

Well to ask the Question, why would a country hand over control over fiscal policy to another group when it does not share the same currency.

Imo it makes perfect sense what Cameron did and also many countries should have started cutting spending like he did not starting now because they can longer keep raising their debt.

Personally I think Europe would be in a much better shape without all the rating agencies threatening to rate them lower. The countries are never going to recover if the rating agencies keep on downgrading the stated, which makes all the efforts useless again. We need an indepentent rating agency from Europe, who can't follow American interests.

I can see a conspiracy here, with the rating agencies betting on the bankrupty of countries, and then downgrading them to reach that.

Agree with him or not, but coward is not how I would ever describe him.

What silver-tiger says is true... There is crisis not because of the problems in europe but because of the overreacting financial markets.