(VOVworld)- David Cameron says a deal struck with EU leaders will give the UK "special status" in the EU and he will campaign with his "heart and soul" to stay in the union. The agreement was reached late on Friday after two days of talks in Brussels.

David Cameron delivering a press conference after reaching a deal with European leaders on his reforms. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

After a two-day conference in Brussels, on Friday, EU leaders agreed on a package of measures to keep Britain stay in the bloc. The agreement covers most of the UK’s package of EU reforms.

EU leaders agreed to a deal that will see a seven-year term for the emergency brake to restrict EU migrants in the UK claiming in-work benefits, child benefit payments indexed to the cost of living for children living outside the UK for all new arrivals to the UK, extending to all workers from 1 January 2020. Under the agreement any single non-eurozone country able to force a debate among EU leaders about ‘problem’ eurozone laws – though they will not have a veto, and an unequivocal opt-out stating that EU treaty “references to ever-closer union do not apply to the United Kingdom”.

EC President Donald Tusk said the agreement consolidated the UK’s special status in the EU and is legally binding and irreversible. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the agreement a fair concession.

But the deal between the UK and other EU members are just the beginning. The UK needs to organize a poll, set for June 23, on whether to stay in the EU. On February 20, Prime Minister Cameron introduced the deal in a cabinet meeting which discussed ways to persuade the British people to accept the deal. Prime Minister Cameron needs to take advantage of support of pro-EU people. A public poll shows that the British are divided between staying and leaving the EU. Some British people want to leave the EU because of the migrant issues, especially those fled Syria. The British people are worried that the increase of migrants will make their taxes rise and their salaries go down. National sovereignty is also a reason. The British people are hesitant to give up their sovereignty rights to mingle with the EU.

The UK is the EU’s second largest economy and one of the two EU countries being Permanent Members at the UN Security Council. For all those reasons, it will not be easy for Prime Minister Cameron to persuade the British to approve his deal with the EU.