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No deal on EU benefits after Polish talks - David Cameron Poland doesn't see 'eye-to-eye' with UK on curbing benefits
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David Cameron said he had yet to reach agreement with Poland over his call for benefit curbs for EU migrants. David Cameron says he has yet to reach agreement with Poland over his call for benefit curbs for EU migrants.
Polish prime minster Beata Szydlo said she did not see "eye to eye" with Mr Cameron on the issue but wanted Britain to remain in the EU. Polish prime minster Beata Szydlo said she did not see "eye-to-eye" with Mr Cameron on the issue but wanted Britain to remain in the EU.
She promised further talks in January to reach a "consensus".She promised further talks in January to reach a "consensus".
Mr Cameron said curbing "excessive migration" by restricting benefits for new arrivals was a "difficult" goal but was key to his EU renegotiations.Mr Cameron said curbing "excessive migration" by restricting benefits for new arrivals was a "difficult" goal but was key to his EU renegotiations.
The main sticking point for Poland, which must agree to Mr Cameron's reforms, along with the other EU member states, is his call for migrants to wait four years before they can claim in-work benefits.
'Free movement'
Mrs Szydlo said she was also concerned about UK proposals to end the practice of sending child benefit overseas.
She said she had common ground with the UK on many of its negotiating objectives but she suggested Mr Cameron's welfare proposals undermined the principle of free movement.
"Allowing people the freedom to make decisions on free movement, where they want to live, where they want to work because these are the main pillars of the EU and the reason why the EU was established," she told a press conference in Warsaw.
Mr Cameron said: "We don't yet have agreement, it is going to take time, but I do feel we have the goodwill to reach an agreement that will be of benefit to the British people."
The UK prime minister has indicated that he may be open to other ways of curbing benefits that would be more acceptable to other EU nations.
But he is under pressure from senior figures in his own party not to water down his demands.
Work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith has urged him to stick to the plan to curb benefits for four years, emphasising repeatedly that this is a Conservative manifesto commitment.
'Delicate'
Mr Cameron has promised the British people an in/out EU referendum before the end of 2017, once his reform negotiations are concluded.
He is seeking a "new settlement" for the UK in the EU, made up of four key strands:
Of those objectives, European Council President Donald Tusk has said welfare reform is the most "delicate" and that there are "substantial political differences" over the plan.
Mr Cameron has conceded a deal will not be reached on the UK's objectives before Christmas. But Mr Tusk has said it should "pave the way" for a deal by February.