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Speech by Peter Shore on the Delors Report (Bruges, 24 July 1990)
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Holmes, Martin (Ed.). The eurosceptical reader. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1996, pp. 42-49.
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| Keywords |
Delors Plan, Economic and Monetary Union
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© Palgrave Macmillan
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Invited by the Bruges Group to give an talk on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), Labour MP Peter Shore harshly criticises the Delors Report for European monetary unification.
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| Location in the digital library |
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1987–1997 The European Union in a Europe in the throes of change >> Towards Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) >> The Delors Report
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Speech by Peter Shore (Bruges, 24 July 1990)
Members of the Bruges Group, thank you for inviting me to address you this evening. This is an unusual occasion because, although your Group is designed to be an ‘All Party Forum’, its speakers have been overwhelmingly drawn from the Conservative Party, though I understand that its officers are truly independent. I am a Labour politician whose localities and perspectives remain firmly based in the Party of which I am a member. But, on this issue of Europe and Britain's future, I believe we are united on at least three major propositions. First, the shared belief in the continuing capacity of the British people for successful self-government. Second, in our conviction that the European Community which we wish to see is one that is based upon the willing co-operation of sovereign states, and not upon the creation of a European super-state; and third, a strong belief that the boundaries of the European Community should not be confined to the present 12 but should extend to embrace, if such be their wish, those Eastern and Central European countries recently liberated from Soviet rule, as well as the democratic nations in the European Free Trade Area. All three objectives are under threat from the present headlong rush into Economic and Monetary and Political union. If the Delors version of (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
The first stage of Economic and Monetary Union
The intergovernmental negotiations
Towards Economic and Monetary Union
The Delors Report
List of members of the Delors Committee
‘Nigel Lawson's speech — (1) Foot on the brakes' from Europe (31 January 1989)
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