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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966199403321

Autore

Wall Stephen <1947->

Titolo

A stranger in Europe : Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair / / Stephen Wall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-51533-7

9786611515331

0-19-153639-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

327.410409045

Soggetti

Great Britain Foreign relations 1979-1997

Great Britain Foreign relations 1997-

Great Britain Foreign relations European Union countries

European Union countries Foreign relations Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. The Start of a Troubled Relationship; 2. The Dynamics of a Deal; 3. European Union or European Unity? The Campaign for the Single Market; 4. The Single European Act and Economic and Monetary Union; 5. The Euro and Union: Thatcher, Major, and Fin de Régime; 6. At the Heart of Europe: The Road to the Maastricht Treaty; 7. Success Turned Sour: From Maastricht to Mad Cow Disease; 8. "A New Dawn has Broken has it Not?" New Labour and the European Union; 9. How the British Government's European Policy is Made; 10. A Stranger in Europe; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This is the story of how British governments have wrestled with policy towards the European Union, written by someone who worked closely with many of Britain's political leaders in shaping an often fraught but always full-frontal relationship between Britain and her European partners. - ;For over twenty years, at the heart of Whitehall, Sir Stephen Wall worked for British leaders as they shaped Britain's European policy: Margaret Thatcher fighting to get 'her money back'; John Major at Maastricht where the single European currency was born; Tony Blair



negotiating the Amsterdam, Nice and Consti