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(Reuters) - "Former French Prime Minister and fervent EU advocate Michel Rocard accused Britain on Wednesday of having only joined the European Union to serve its commercial interests, telling it to leave before it caused further damage.
The comments by the 83-year-old Rocard came as Britain leads opposition to the bid of former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to run the European Commission, a post for which he has backing from a number of EU members including Germany.
"Between you and us, the continental Europeans, there is a disagreement that is turning ugly," Rocard wrote in an commentary published in Le Monde newspaper.
"Europe is dying from it," he said.
The Socialist Rocard has been a backer of closer European integration since the bloc's founding in the decade after World War Two and spent 15 years as a member of European parliament after leaving French politics in 1997.
Britain - which joined the then European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 after France's General Charles de Gaulle had resisted a previous attempt to enter the bloc - has long been accused by some of the zone's founder members of seeking to slow down European political union."
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