UK Guardian: David Cameron faces clash with Conservative Eurosceptics
David Cameron is facing a fresh clash with Tory Eurosceptics after dropping Britain's objections to the use of the European court of justice (ECJ) to enforce a new fiscal compact for the eurozone.... Cameron told EU leaders at their summit in Brussels that Britain was unlikely to raise any objections to the use of the ECJ to police tough new fiscal rules for eurozone members.
Tory Eurosceptics accused the prime minister of annulling his vetoing of a revision of the Lisbon treaty last December, which prevented eurozone leaders from embedding the compact in the architecture of the EU.
Bernard Jenkin, the veteran Eurosceptic, said: "This nullifies the effect of the UK's veto in December and demonstrates how a subset of EU member states can hijack the EU institutions for their own purposes, bypassing any dissenting state … The government cannot retreat from that now, or they will refuel demands for a referendum on the UK's present terms of membership of the EU."
The Liberal Democrats will say they have achieved an important victory. The deputy prime minister, who was alarmed by Cameron's use of the veto, made clear in December that the EU's institutions would have to be put at the disposal of eurozone leaders.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/30/eu-summit-david-cameron-eurosceptics
If the tea party-like wing of the British Conservative Party is unhappy, can that be a bad thing?
