Not appropriate for any country to renegotiate terms of EU membership - Muscat

This is not the time for any country to renegotiate its position within the EU, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this morning. He said it was not his role to judge the UK's reality when asked by timesofmalta.com  for his reaction to UK Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership in 2017. "I don't feel it is appropriate for any country to renegotiate its position within the EU and it is definitely not Malta's option to renegotiate anything or hold referendums," he said. Dr Muscat reaffirmed his party's stand that Malta's EU membership was a closed chapter. The more important thing now was to make sure the country made a success of membership "within the terms that are in place today", he added.