The widespread hostility to the perceived profligacy of the euro zone's two largest members was toned down at the meetings.
Conservative MP Steve Baker, the campaign's Westminster chairman, told the Telegraph: "We wish David Cameron every success but, unless senior EU officials awake to the possibility that one of the EU's largest members is serious about a fundamental change in our relationship, our recommendation to British voters seems likely to be exit".
Despite all the irritation expressed here towards Britain's relationship with the EU, news that one of the bloc's largest members is leaving will come as a shock, with real implications for the country's own political debate.
The smallest member of the series (n=2) is insoluble in water and diluted acid solutions, but the larger members are soluble in acid conditions and poorly soluble in alkaline conditions.
Italy, the eurozone's third largest member, is too big to fail.
It is building an enormous plant on Sakhalin Island, off Russia's Pacific coast, for an international consortium that includes Exxon Mobil, and is developing oil and gas fields in Kazakhstan for a consortium whose largest member is ChevronTexaco.
Indonesia, by far ASEAN's largest member, is continuing its post-Suharto reforms; if democracy roots there, the power of ASEAN's liberals could be decisive.
The entire case against Waters, set forth in the Statement of Alleged Violations adopted by the Ethics Committee five months ago, rests on the assistance that her chief of staff, Mikael Moore, who is also her grandson, gave to officers of the National Bankers Association, a group of small minority-owned banks, whose largest member is OneUnited.
It also found that their larger members were companies with multi-million turnovers.
