Cameron wins approval to keep Britain in EU

WARSAW/LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron appeared to win support from Poland on Friday for a proposed deal to keep Britain in the European Union, though an opinion poll suggested voters could still reject membership by as much as nine percentage points.

Cameron says he needs a deal to restrict EU migrant benefits, recover powers from Brussels and defend Britain against greater integration of the euro zone if he is going to be able to sell it to voters in a referendum likely in June.

But European Council President Donald Tusk’s outline deal for Britain is still littered with empty square brackets.

Proposals to allow Britain to delay paying benefits to workers from elsewhere in the EU are under intense scrutiny, especially from Poland, the biggest source of Britain’s migrant labour force.

After meeting with Cameron in Warsaw, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who as head of the ruling Law and Justice party is viewed as the ultimate decision maker in Poland, said he was satisfied.

"We have gained really very, very much," said Kaczynski, who is also a former prime minister and the twin brother of late president Lech Kaczynski.