David Cameron seeks Polish support for his EU renegotiation proposals during trip to Warsaw
Polish PM says she support aspects of the UK's draft blueprint, such as enhanced national sovereignty and competitiveness
But Beata Szydlo says other areas, including curbs on EU migrants benefits, need to be 'ironed out'
The UK PM moves onto Denmark for talks with counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who gives full backing to his reforms
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says a UN panel's ruling that Julian Assange be allowed to go free is 'ridiculous'
The head of the cross-party Remain in EU campaign, Lord Rose, says he expects a substantial win in the referendum
The chancellor was speaking to a BBC producer in Rome
Quote MessageI hope we can get the agreement and then make the case for Britain to stay in a reformed European Union with all the benefits that can bring. That's the debate that's coming but at the moment I see us making good progress."
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Parliament
International development questions is under way in the Commons, and the first question is on preparations for the UN World Humanitarian Summit, due to take place in Istanbul in May.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening says the UK has "bold ambitions" for the summit and hopes it can provide "transformative change to crisis response".
Former Europe minister David Heathcoat-Amory critical of EU deal proposals
David Heathcoat-Amory has voiced his surprise over Theresa May's positive reaction to the EU draft deal. He told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight:
Quote Message(She) must know that tinkering around with benefits system does not put us back in charge of our immigration policy.”
Mr Heathcoat-Amory added that he believes up to half of the cabinet will come out against staying in Europe.
Quote MessageI would be most disappointed if she… and a good number of others, perhaps even up to half the cabinet, weren’t true to their principles, true to Conservative beliefs in a self-governing, sovereign country which is friends with Europe but is not governed from Europe.”
Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor
Image source, EPAThere is concern among Whitehall officials about how child benefit proposals by European Council President Donald Tusk would work.
Quote MessageThey are unsure how UK authorities can be sure where the children of migrants are resident and so how to set the level of child benefit given to EU migrants. Officials are also worried about the phasing in of other in-work benefits. It is not at all clear how checks would be made on how long people had actually been in the country. For instance, some regularly travel in and out of the UK or return to their home country to see family for a few months at a time. There is also concern that a new and unclear system would be brought in at the same time the Department for Work and Pensions is trying to implement the complex universal credit reforms."
Chancellor George Osborne said while he thought agreement could be reached over the UK's role in the EU - the final decision rested in the hands of the British public.
He told a press conference in Italy he believed the deal "would lead to a stronger more reformed Europe that Britain can be part of".
Quote MessageAlthough ultimately that will not be a decision for me, that will be a decision for the British people in the referendum which will be held in Britain on our membership of the European Union."
London mayor is asked if he will campaign for an EU exit
Boris Johnson: PM 'making best of bad job'
Asked by reporters outside his home what he thought of the EU deal, London Mayor Boris Johnson said:
Quote MessageThe PM is making the best of a bad job. But I regret to inform you that my position is still what it was yesterday morning. But let's wait and see when this whole thing is agreed and try and see what it really means - every bit of it."
Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn are joined by deputy Commons leader Therese Coffey and shadow Commons leader Chris Bryant for reaction to David Cameron's EU reform package and PMQs.
They'll also hear from Conservative MP Liam Fox, Labour's Kate Hoey, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Green MP Caroline Lucas on the draft EU deal and Europe.
Also on the programme: the inconvenient disappearance of public conveniences; why the British Toilet Association thinks more investment is needed in public toilets.
Debate on EU leaders' summit
President Juncker sums up the debate for the Commission, telling MEPs that many of them are "using the European Parliament to attack their governments".
To applause, he says he does not wish to engage in such "primitive party politics".
On the UK's renegotiation, he says that the EU cannot "refuse" to listen to the UK's concerns if it wants the prevent a Brexit.
"If we want the UK to stay in the EU, we've got to have discussions," he adds.
However, he says the EU will not "cease" all other activities because of the debate.
As an example, he tells MEPs that consultation on promised changes to EU labour laws, external - known as the "mobility package" - will be going ahead in March.
Chancellor George Osborne says the draft EU deal "will lead to a stronger, more reformed Europe",
Speaking in Rome at a joint news conference with the Italian Finance Minister Piercarlo Padoan, he said:
Quote MessageJust yesterday the President of the European Council set out proposals, which I think both strengthen the European Union and strengthen Britain's position in the European Union and address some of the concerns that Britain has had about the European Union. The result of which I think, if we can get an agreement in the coming weeks, will lead to a stronger more reformed Europe that Britain could be part of."
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Mark Garnier, a Conservative member of the influential Commons Treasury select committee, says UK households will suffer if the UK leaves the EU.
He told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show:
Quote MessageHouseholds really are going to be the losers if we get this experiment with politics wrong - and I think leaving the EU is an experiment with politics. It just potentially increases the risk to households far too much... If we vote to come out and we have a two year protracted process of extricating ourselves from Europe, businesses will be reluctant to invest and that's what's going to hit households."
Debate on EU leaders' summit
Labour MEP Richard Corbett - who runs a "mythbusting" blog, external about the EU - says the UK draft deal does contain some "significant concessions".
However, he adds that there are some changes that are "symbolic or trivial".
He makes it clear that Labour would "not have gone down the route chosen by Mr Cameron", but urges the party's MEPs to get behind the deal anyway, as it "will help" to win the battle to stay in.
He says that the UK's place in the world, not the the renegotiation deal itself, should be the "overriding consideration" of the British public.
He adds:
Quote MessageThere is far too much at stake for us to quibble and oppose this package."
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Former defence secretary Liam Fox says he can think of four or five Cabinet ministers who want the UK to leave the EU.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:
Quote MessageI think there will be a number of Cabinet ministers with a range of different responsibilities who will want to be in the leave camp. I don't know exactly how many, but I can think of four of five for certain, and we'll wait to see when they make their decisions..."
Dr Fox also called for both sides of the argument to have equal airtime:
Quote MessageThe decision has been and the agreement has been that no-one will make the case for or against...That would be fine if it applies equally to both sides. The danger is always that the rules seem to be different for one side of the argument than the other. And I think if the prime minister has already decided the draft deal is enough for him to campaign, to go out there selling the deal, then it should be for others who don't agree with that to make their own case. The danger of treating the two sides differently is it will make it more difficult to come together after the referendum. If we treat one another with respect in terms of our arguments, and the rules are the same for both sides, all the easier for us to come together for good governance in the UK after the referendum."
The EU reform package includes draft proposals on national sovereignty, which include:
Image source, ReutersDebate on EU leaders' summit
Gyorgy Schopflin, from the ruling Fidesz party in Hungary, says that the question of free movement of workers is a "central" concern for Central and Eastern European countries.
He adds that "any derogation" from this principle would "immediately raise the question" of further changes to the EU's other three "freedoms", external - including the freedom of movement of capital.
He says that he hopes the final renegotiation package - which he calls "high risk" - will "assuage" British Eurosceptics, although he adds that he "rather doubts it".
He tells MEPs that "much will change" for the UK even if it decides to stay in, and predicts "years of upheaval" if it votes to leave.
Gyorgy Schopflin has previously worked as an academic in London
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Estonian MEP Urmas Paet said UK demands for changes to the EU will affect all members.
He told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire:
Quote MessageIt's absolutely important that the UK will stay in the EU...I'm quite sure that the outcome of the talks will make some changes for Europe."
Amongst other areas, the EU reform package includes draft proposals on the UK's relationship with the Eurozone:
Image source, AFP/Getty ImagesThe European Central Bank sets base interest rates in the Eurozone
Debate on EU leaders' summit
Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope says that yesterday's package is the "basis of a good deal" that he hopes can be finalised at the summit this month.
He adds that the deal was "never going to please" those who want to leave the EU regardless, but nor is it "music to the ears of Euro-federalists".
Czech Liberal Pavel Telicka says that he is "not that happy" with the deal, but adds:
Quote MessageIf this is the price to pay to keep the UK in the EU, then I'm prepared to go along"
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German MEP Ska Keller called on the UK to stay in the EU to help it reform.
She told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show:
Quote MessageI would be very sad if the UK were to leave...From our point of view, I would be very grateful if the UK would decide to stay with us and to help us to change the EU altogether."
Debate on EU leaders' summit
Green MEP Jean Lambert tells MEPs that her party will be supporting a vote to remain in the EU, due to the nature of political problems such as the migration crisis that show the "clear need" for international co-operation beyond "inter-governmental" talks.
She predicts that the British public will be hearing "a lot" about the principle of subsidiarity, external - the idea that the EU should only act in areas that could not be addressed more effectively by national laws.
However, the principle - which has been hard to define precisely - only applies in areas where the EU and member states share responsibility.
