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Blair has now finished. What have we learnt? Here's part 3 of my round-up, based just on what we've heard since lunch.? Blair is optimistic - perhaps too optimistic - about the ability of the media to change. Although he sketched out in slightly more detail than he did in the morning his view of what a new media framework should look like, he also said that what was really necessary was a cultural change in the way newspapers operated. He said he would like newspapers to do more to distinguish between news and comment.They're perfectly entitled, in a partisan way, to say were going to run X story instead of Y story, but within that story,
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The certainty that there is going to be treaty change is only in David Cameron's mind. The Germans seem to have moved away from that in recent weeks and months. It is far from clear that on a timescale by the middle of 2017 there will be agreement as to the need for treaty change to achieve what is the focus for most Eurozone members, which is stabilisation of the Eurozone.A referendum on EuropeQ: A few days before Cameron's speech Vince Cable gave a speech saying there were arguments in principle in favour of a referendum. Do you think there is a case in principle for a referendum?A: Well,
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