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| Nigel Farage and Carwyn Jones to hold Europe debate | Nigel Farage and Carwyn Jones to hold Europe debate |
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| Nigel Farage and Carwyn Jones will take part in a head-to-head debate on the UK's membership of the EU. | Nigel Farage and Carwyn Jones will take part in a head-to-head debate on the UK's membership of the EU. |
| The UKIP leader and Welsh first minister will lock horns on 11 January at an event in Cardiff. | The UKIP leader and Welsh first minister will lock horns on 11 January at an event in Cardiff. |
| On Monday Mr Jones launched Welsh Labour's campaign for the UK to stay in the EU ahead of a promised referendum. | |
| In spring 2014 Mr Farage held two debates with the then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg in the run-up to the European Parliament elections. | In spring 2014 Mr Farage held two debates with the then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg in the run-up to the European Parliament elections. |
| Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to negotiate reforms to the UK's membership of the EU and has promised to hold a referendum by the end of 2017 on whether to stay in the union or leave it. | |
| However, a committee of MPs said on Tuesday they believed he could not secure the changes he wants without treaty changes - and he would not get them before before a referendum. | |
| Launching Welsh Labour's pro-EU campaign on Monday, Mr Jones said a UK exit would be disastrous for jobs in Wales, and claimed farming would "effectively come to an end" with the loss of EU subsidies. | |
| However, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb accused Labour of making "wild, outlandish claims" about the threat to jobs, while stressing the UK government would take a "pragmatic" approach over EU membership. | |
| The debate between Mr Farage and Mr Jones is being organised by the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) think tank. | |
| A spokesman for Mr Jones said: "Carwyn is more than happy to take on the opposition. | |
| "As far as the British media is concerned, Farage is the opposition. | |
| "We have always been a very passionately pro-European government and party in Wales." |