He said the justice secretary was clearly taking "a very right wing position" which pandered to "an obvious anti-Europeanism".
By contrast, Mr Tusk has made up with Moscow and exudes a pro-Europeanism that is rare in these troubled times.
The Lib Dems are passionate about their pro-Europeanism, their liberal take on crime and their dovishness on military and foreign matters.
Ken Clarke has the backers to mount a bid, but his fanatical Europeanism, age and uncertain appetite for opposition make him unelectable.
As the party lost one, two, three, four successive general elections from 1979 on, so it ditched unpopular commitments: unilateralism, anti-Europeanism, tax-and-spend.
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Most Conservatives cannot abide the Lib Dems' pro-Europeanism, and much of Mr Clegg's own party wants nothing to do with the Tories either.
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They tended to side with the established consensus: they shared the pragmatic pro-Europeanism of the diplomatic elite and the Home Office's pessimism that little could be done about rising crime.
By pre-arrangement, and by way of compromise, the prime minister has chosen to attack the Tories' general anti-Europeanism, rather than make a robust case for the merits of the euro.
If such a league stole all the glamour, money and prestige and if fans began to support foreign clubs as often as their own that would indeed mark a big step by the fans towards pan-Europeanism.
If the Tories veer to the right or towards a visceral anti-Europeanism, they are likely to suffer the same fate as the Labour Party after it chose the left-wing Michael Foot as its leader in 1980.
"It is time that we realised in this House that focusing our foreign policy on the narrow ground of greater Europeanism and ever closer political union in Europe is actually contrary to the UK's vital interests, " he added.
"It is time we realised in this House that focusing our foreign policy on the narrow ground of 'greater Europeanism' and ever closer political union in Europe is actually contrary to the UK's vital interests, " Nigel Dodds, the party's leader in Westminster, said.
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