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"This is not a time to accuse those who want Europe to change of betraying Europe," Blair said.

"It is a time to recognize that only by change will Europe recover its strength, its relevance, its idealism and therefore its support among the people.

"The issue is not between a free-market Europe and a social Europe, between those who want to retreat to a common market and those who believe in Europe as a political project," he said.

The British leader was both heckled and applauded when he told EU lawmakers "I am a passionate pro-European," in an atmosphere closer to the rough-and-tumble of the House of Commons than the staid courtesy of the Brussels chamber.

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