“To French officials, any provisions giving non-euro countries power to indefinitely stall eurozone votes are unacceptable,” the Financial Times reported, saying France would reject any “backdoor veto” for the City of London finance hub.” A new challenge arose on Sunday when Paris set a red line by warning London that it would block the proposal on protection for non-euro countries if it went too far.Mr Cameron and European Union president Donald china ratchet socket wrench factory Tusk failed to reach an agreement in London on Sunday night, but set a 24-hour deadline for further ne-gotiations in Brussels to produce a draft agreement.

Although Mr Cameron has set a deadline of the end of 2017 to hold a referendum, he is keen to push a vote through before any new flare-up in the migration crisis and before British eurosceptics, particularly in his own Conservative party, become even more unruly. “However we are not there yet.” Downing Street insisted there had been a “significant breakthrough” on Sunday on plans for an “emergency brake” excluding EU migrants from benefits such as income top-ups for low-paid workers until they have paid into the British system. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” Margaritis Schinas, a spokesman for the EU’s executive body, told a daily briefing. Without a draft there will be no time for European capitals to sign off on a full deal at an EU summit later this month, in turn ruling out Mr Cameron’s preferred date of June for a referendum on Britain’s EU membership..Meanwhile, the EU warned Britain on Monday that any breakthrough in talks on a better membership deal would have to be hard-won.

Mr Tusk said on Twitter on Sunday that “intensive work” in the next 24 hours was “crucial”, and he is set to decide on Monday night whether or not to go ahead with plans to submit a proposal for a British deal. The British Premier has set out four policy areas for EU reforms, but a EU source said of the talks so far: “Only one basket is really ‘clo-sed’.The European Commission said on Monday there had been “prog-ress”, especially on proposals for a so-called “welfare brake” that would allow London to immediately stop benefits payments to EU migrants in Britain. “The talks are going on non-stop, both negotiating teams are already in Brussels for further talks.EU warns Britain: Any deal will be hard wonBritish and EU diplomats raced against time Monday to seal a deal on changes to Britain’s membership of the bloc by the end of the day and allow PM David Cameron to hold a referendum as planned this summer. “It’s difficult,” said a source close to the negotiations