UK Prime Minister David Cameron set a deadline to hold an in-out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union by the end of 2017, in his much-anticipated speech on relations with Europe.
He pledged to negotiate a revision of Britain's membership terms within two and a half years of the next general election in 2015 and put it to a public vote.
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