They were probably never destined to become best friends.
Britain’s Conservative prime minister has fallen out with the European employment commissioner Laszlo Andor – a left-wing Hungarian economist – over changes to Britain’s welfare rules designed to make it harder for migrants to claim certain benefits.
In an article in the Financial Times, Mr Cameron said he “shared concerns” about an influx of Romanians and Bulgarians, who will have the same right to work in the UK as other EU citizens from 1 January next year.
Mr Andor said the intervention could see Britain cast in the role of the EU’s “nasty country”.
He added: “The British public has not been given all the truth and the full truth about this subject. So we would need a more accurate presentation of the reality.” We’ll do our best.
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