Reading Cameron’s speech to the suits in Davos, one thing stands out: he’s in no mood to stop ‘lecturing’ the eurozone, as Nicolas Sarkozy would put it. The whole thing is saturated with firm advice for our European brethren, from generalities such as ‘Tinkering here and there and hoping we’ll drift to a solution simply won’t cut it any more,’ to specific policies that the Continent should introduce so that it can ‘recover its dynamism’. He even found space to attack the ‘madness’ of a Tobin tax, as well as to hawk the coalition’s deficit-reduction plan.
It’s the sort of advice that could, of course, put Cameron further at odds with his fellow European leaders. He made sure to praise Angela Merkel today for ‘calling for a package of deregulation and liberalisation policies,’ but his overall emphasis on shortening Brussels’ reach is actually in stark contrast to a lot of her recent proposals.
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