In Britain, Eurosceptics hope to win a vote to leave the EU whereas in Germany the pro-EU elite wants a referendum to change the constitution to give more powers to Brussels.
Tony Blair spoke to the pro-EU Business for New Europe' group, but his intended audience was far wider.
National newspapers on the continent are overwhelmingly pro-establishment and therefore pro-EU. British newspapers may reflect a more Eurosceptic public opinion.
Mr Tusk's emollient, pro-EU stance contrasts sharply with the Kaczynskis' abrasive style.
With the three main parties all pro-EU and euro, it is hard to see how the True Finns could fit into a coalition.
They share a single, unifying suspicion: that their coalition partners, the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, may yet block moves to bind the wounded Euro-Leviathan.
He may now prefer a committee to review options (with strong caveats over fish) and discussions with his coalition partners, the pro-EU Social Democrats.
Pretty well all Conservative backbenchers, even the few with relatively pro-EU views, believe the EU's call for increased spending is simply potty and completely unjustifiable.
Martin Winter, in Sueddeutsche Zeitung , warns that as much as Mr Cameron's ideas may irritate pro-EU politicians, it would be a mistake just to dismiss them.
Membership of the single currency would take a bit longer, but pro-EU politicians say the simple act of applying and working towards euro convergence would reassure the markets.
This is the first visit to Serbia by a German chancellor in several years and is intended to encourage Serbia's government to maintain its pro-EU path, our correspondent says.
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Speaking in Friday's debate, organised by the pro-EU lobby group Business for New Europe, she said the UK "needs to be at the heart of the EU", but also "needs to articulate a new relationship" with its EU partners.
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And with both the Conservatives and the British press becoming more sceptical in the 90s, one of the most pro-EU party leaders - Tony Blair - felt he had to offer a referendum if a Labour government were to decide it was in Britain's economic interests to join the euro.
Chrsitoph Prantner, a writer for Austrian paper Der Standard finds both pro- and anti-EU ("EU-freundlich und EU-feindlich") messages in the speech.
EU. Others said they were pro-European, but happy with the status quo, rather than deeper political integration.
Izvestiya , a pro-government daily, is sharply critical of the EU's recipe for resolving the crisis in Cyprus.
Some in the EU capital argue that other European governments, Germany in particular, should have done more to help the cash-strapped governments of the euro zone, through pro-growth programs that would have sweetened the bitter medicine of EU-backed reforms.
In other cases, there are disagreements between various levels of government: Australia's federal government is pro-GM and backing America's drive to overturn the EU ban, but the state government of Victoria has just banned the growing of GM canola.
The prime minister will insist once again today that he wants Britain to stay in the EU. His aides argue that his speech will enable the pro European case to be made.
The EU is insisting they start talking about the Singapore issues as a quid pro quo for liberalising agriculture.
President Viktor Yanukovych - elected in April 2010 - has said EU membership is a "strategic aim" but has been accused of being a placeman for pro-Russian tendencies in the country.
Paradoxically the slow dissolution of Belgium, the most pro-European of countries, goes hand in hand with the (uneven) deeper integration of the EU. Belgium is facing its worst troubles just as the EU confronts the gravest challenge to the euro.
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