Cameron plays hard to get as EU pushes reform offer

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By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - David Cameron told Brussels on Friday that a proposed "emergency brake" to curb European immigration to Britain was "not good enough" but he saw progress on a deal to persuade British voters to back continued EU membership. After lunch with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, whose staff described the meeting as "difficult but constructive", Cameron was at pains to play down talk that a draft package EU officials say could be ready this weekend will herald a deal at a mid-February summit and a summer referendum. Referring to an EU proposal to help him meet an election pledge to curb benefits for EU workers for four years, Cameron told the BBC: "There is now a proposal on the table.




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