Britain and Europe: A Mountain to Climb
Britain and Europe: A Mountain to Climb

Summary/Abstract: Britain has always had reservations about its membership of the EU. The crisis in the eurozone hasconfirmed Britons in their suspicion of a union which began as a trading partnership, and that is evolving as afederation in order to maintain a currency of which most Britons want no part. The ‘summit’ meeting of heads ofgovernment that took place in Brussels on 8/9 December 2011 proved to be a test of the extent to which Britainis (in Churchill’s phrase) ‘with Europe, but not of it’. David Cameron’s reasons for wielding the veto, and the pressreaction to it – in Britain, France, and Germany – are indicative of what has been, and what may continue to be, atroubled relationship.

• Details
• Contents