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A Stranger in Europe - Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair (Hardcover)
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A Stranger in Europe - Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair (Hardcover)
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For over twenty years Sir Stephen Wall was at the heart of
Whitehall, working for a succession of British leaders as they
shaped Britain's policy towards the European Union. He was there
behind the scenes when Margaret Thatcher took on the rest of Europe
to 'get her money back'. He was with John Major at Maastricht where
the single European currency was born. He was with Tony Blair as a
negotiator of the EU's Amsterdam, Nice and Constitutional Treaties.
As a senior official in London, as Britain's ambassador to the
European Union and as Tony Blair's senior official adviser on
Europe he saw Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries define,
defend and promote Britain's interests in Europe. Drawing on that
experience, Stephen Wall traces a British journey from 1982 to the
present as successive British governments have wrestled with their
relationship with their fellow EU partners, with the European
Commission and the European Parliament.
A Stranger in Europe goes behind the scenes as Margaret Thatcher
and her successors have sought to reconcile Britain's national and
European interests. Drawing on the official documents of the
period, he gives a unique insight into how Britain's leaders have
balanced objective assessment of Britain's wishes; political, press
and public pressures; their own political instincts and the aims,
interests and personalities of their fellow European leaders. We
see Britain's Prime Ministers in intimate discussion with other EU
leaders. We experience how Britain's top politicians motivated the
best civil servants of their day and how those civil servants, in
turn, sought to turn political instructions into negotiating
successes. Above all, we see people at thetop of their game trying
to promote the British national interest and be good Europeans at
the same time.
Stephen Wall analyses both Britain's successes and our failures
and shows how, despite the differences of declared aim, and huge
differences of personality, Britain's political leaders have in
practice followed very similar paths. He concludes that Britain has
been an awkward partner, often at odds with her partners: a
stranger in Europe. But with dogged determination and seriousness
of purpose Britain's leaders have nonetheless done much to shape
and reform the modern Europe in which we live today.
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