Britain and the Maastricht negotiations

By - Forster, Anthony, 1964-

Floor - Floor 1

ISBN 10 - 0312218486

ISBN 13 - 9780312218485

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - European Union--Great Britain.

Shelf No - 17

Call Number - 337.41 FOR

Physical Description - ix, 211 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.

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Anthony Forster examines the British government's negotiation of the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty) which took place between December 1990 and December 1991. He provides a detailed account of both strands of the negotiations, the Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union (IGC-PU) and the Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union (IGC-EMU). On the basis of documentary and interview-based evidence of leading participants from Britain and Europe, he casts doubt on the claim that the government won the negotiations game, set and match and analyses the enormous party-management problems and international pressures that John Major had to balance on succeeding Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister.

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