UK’s Cameron to visit Paris, Berlin for talks next week

Prime Minister David Cameron will travel to Paris and Berlin next week for talks as Britain seeks to renegotiate its relationship with the EU, British officials said Friday.

The meetings at the end of next week were announced as Cameron arrived at a summit in Riga to start discussions on reforms to Britain’s position in the European Union ahead of an in-out referendum on membership due to be held by the end of 2017.

Cameron predicted as he arrived at the summit of EU leaders and six former Soviet states that there would be “ups and downs” in Britain’s renegotiation bid.

But he voiced his “determination” to make a success of reform, which he says will require changes to the EU’s core treaties.