Tony Blair’s opportunity: an Anglo-Social European model: by Howard Reed and Mike Dixon
The start of Britain’s presidency of the European Union from July-December 2005, like its hosting of the G8 summit in Scotland, has been overshadowed by the London terrorist attacks of 7 and 21 July and the understandable concentration on security issues in their aftermath. The cautious resumption of “normal” politics – against the background of an intense focus on the possibility of an extended terror campaign – gives Tony Blair the chance to show that Britain has much more to offer Europe than the caricature of a mid-Atlantic neo-liberal outpost might suggest.
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