Will MEPs act like 'monkeys with guns'?

With 48 hours to go until the summit where David Cameron hopes to seal the deal, the Prime Minister is in Brussels to drum up support among MEPs for his EU reform demands. MEPs have the power to block any possible agreement.

Bruno Waterfield, Brussels correspondent for The Times and György Schöpflin, Hungarian MEP from the governing Fidesz Party spoke to the BBC Radio 4's The World at One.

Mr Waterfield said of the current negotiations, "it's the moment when people are trying to see who blinks first", while Mr Schöpflin told presenter Martha Kearney that some groups in the European Parliament will be "very hostile" to elements of UK-EU deal.

(Photo: David Cameron and MEPs negotiate UK deal in Brussels. Credit: Reuters)