Europe in reality is a closed theatre where formidable battles are fought between the member states ...there are no common ideals and a common European destiny is inconceivable. Jacques Attali, former foreign policy adviser to President Mitterrand By GRAHAM STEWART Download Briefing Note: bn#6
The World Trade Organisation global free trade – now that would be a monument worthy of a new Millennium! William Hague, speech in Berlin, 17th September 1999. By RONALD STEWART-BROWN Download Briefing Note: bn#5
We may choose to browse complacently like doomed if civilised dinosaurs amid the fading glories of the European Project, or we can shape up confidently and flexibly to the opportunities and challenges of the global economy. By LORD HARRIS OF HIGH CROSS Download Briefing Note: bn#4
"[the euro project] is of course, an intensely political act…the euro cannot be conceived of except politically" Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, statement to the House of Commons on EMU, 23rd February, 1999 (Hansard col. 181) By Download Briefing Note: bn#1
The CAP must be modified …the present system is a manifest absurdity …it is time to grasp the nettle of reform Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, speech in The Hague, 20th January, 1998 By DR RICHARD HOWARTH Download Briefing Note: bn#3
