What benefits does the EU receive from a British membership?

He made British membership of the European institutions conditional for his political cooperation.

He was also against British membership of the Common Market.

Canadian and British membership of the G7 might also soon come under scrutiny, but I see nothing wrong with that.

I campaigned against continuing British membership in 1975, and we lost.

Step forward a few of those who got it horribly wrong and urged British membership as a central act of European faith.

That could mean a referendum in late 2002 and British membership anytime between then and 2005.

And the issue of British membership would be dead for another generation.

Moreover, British membership is needed to make the system and Europe in general more stable, analysts say.

Britain this morning is more isolated than at any point in the 35 years of British membership of Europe.