Hammond sees schedule tight for Britain to vote on EU next year

By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said on Tuesday that Britain's EU referendum could only happen next year if negotiations that are unlikely to turn fully serious after December are concluded by May or June. Speaking in Brussels, Hammond also suggested that Europe's refugee crisis, by raising awareness in eastern countries of the difficulties posed by immigration, could ease stiff opposition in the EU's poorer, ex-communist members to British proposals