Cameron: EU deal ‘not yet strong enough’

Euroskeptics have ridiculed an ’emergency brake’ on migrant benefits.

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Europe’s concessions to David Cameron over his proposal to curb migrants’ benefits are “not yet strong enough,” the British prime minister said Friday in an interview with the BBC.

Cameron is in Brussels to meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as the two try to break the impasse over the prime minister’s attempt to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership in the bloc. Cameron was scheduled to meet with European Parliament President Martin Schulz later Friday, and with European Council President Donald Tusk on Sunday.

Legal teams from Europe and the U.K. have discussed using an “emergency brake” to allow a four-year ban on migrants claiming certain benefits if the U.K. proved its public services were strained due to migration.

Cameron also told BBC Radio Scotland that Brussels was proposing something “totally different” to previous offers.

“There is going to be a lot of hard talking but it is encouraging that what I was previously told was impossible is now looking like it is possible,” Cameron said.

Conservative MP John Redwood, who favors a Brexit from the EU in the upcoming referendum, told the BBC Friday that the “emergency brake” idea was “an insult to the U.K. and not a serious offer.”