But solving that dilemma by creating a two-speed Europe with more top-down, remote governance cannot be the answer.
Now there is a two-speed Europe and in order not to give up sovereignty Britain had to give up power.
"The world will likely experience a two-speed recovery, and emerging markets currently offer the brightest prospects for growth, " he said.
"In 2010, we expect a two-speed global economy, " HSBC Holdings Group Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan said Monday in Hong Kong.
In what seemed another reference to Mr Cameron, he said that there could not be a two-speed, or a la carte, Europe.
On visits to eastern and central Europe, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, both argued against a two-speed Europe.
If that means a two-speed Europe, so be it: Britain thinks its outer lane, presently inhabited by the likes of Poland and Sweden, is faster.
The earnings figures also emphasised the "two-speed economy, " with wages in the private services sector surging by 6.6%, fueled by March bonuses in the financial sector.
Britain is concerned about the possible impact of a two-speed Europe, in which it could be left on the margins along with other countries outside the euro.
It does not want to be bound by the EU's fiscal rules, but nor does it want a more tightly integrated euro zone leading to a two-speed Europe.
At the same time, many analysts have pointed out that other areas of the country's economy have not done so well, resulting in what many have termed a two-speed economy.
The British strategy is to stay out of the fight, knowing that the two-speed Europe camp would love to push Britain into the dunce's corner with Ireland and try to marginalise both.
If you look at New South Wales and Victoria, the states where half Australia's population reside, property markets are poor, retail and manufacturing are soft, which is the two-speed economy everyone's talking about.
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But the next implication is that tighter integration of the eurozone countries would put Britain more clearly on the outer ring of a two-speed Europe - less integrated and showing every sign of wanting to stay there.
One complaint from France's ideologically hyper-sensitive left is that the bosses' ideas would create an unacceptable two-speed approach, in which Unedic would deal with the easy cases of joblessness, while the state would be left to cope with the unemployable.
The government has had a change of heart about rapidly expanding the high-speed rail network following a fatal crash of two high-speed trains in July.
The attraction of the inter-governmental route is speed, but it would increase the risk of a two- or even three-speed Europe.
But railway planners talk of a two-day high-speed trip from Shanghai to London by 2025.
Whatever the gadgets to blend the two -- high-speed modems, Microsoft's WebTV, something else -- the public isn't ready yet.
Its two high-speed electric motors operate as one but can act independently (and incidentally, by using reverse torque instead of friction for braking, the motors convert the energy of your motion to help replenish the battery).
Both come complete with a king-size bed or double beds, breakfast buffet for two, high-speed internet access, self parking, airport shuttle and transportation to the nearby International Mall and Westshore Plaza.
This XKR-S is still, after all, a 2-ton two-plus-two coupe with a big engine up front and a six-speed automatic transmission.
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Little surprise, then, that the vast majority of households have only one or two options for high-speed broadband service.
The preferred route of phase two will take high-speed trains to the Church Fenton area, where they can connect with existing lines and run into York.
She took a touring gymnastics show to more than 30 US states and graced the sofas of TV superstars Jay Leno, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres, before becoming the third Olympic gold medallist to win Dancing With The Stars (the other two being short-track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi).
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And according to people familiar with High Speed Two, its economics are rather flaccid: every pound invested in high-speed rail is predicted to generate only around two pounds' worth of benefit (measured in time savings, the extra journeys that will be facilitated, reduced congestion on roads and so on).
Broadcast television has only one (advertising), satellite television has one and a half (subscriptions and a bit of advertising), and telecoms companies have two (telephone and high-speed Internet).
Mancuso won the fifth world championship medal of her career, and her third in the super-G discipline -- one of two "speed events" along with the downhill, compared to the "technical" slalom and giant slalom races.
If you get to the fifth and sixth alerts, you'll again be redirected to a page where you must agree to either an immediate reduction in speed for two to three days or the same 2-3 day speed reduction delayed until 14 days later.
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