| Series Title | European Voice |
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| Series Details | 02/05/96, Volume 2, Number 18 |
| Publication Date | 02/05/1996 |
| Content Type | News |
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Date: 02/05/1996 A new four-part BBC television series on the UK's troubled relationship with the rest of the EU begins on May 9 - the anniversary of Robert Schuman's announcement in 1950 of his plan to pool the French and German coal and steel industries. Schuman, the French foreign minister who had a dream, put Europe on a course which successive UK political leaders have had occasion to regret over the years, as the series called The Poisoned Chalice clearly demonstrates. Its central theme is that generations of Downing Street occupants from Clement Attlee to Margaret Thatcher failed to understand Europe and so came unstuck. It does not quite add John Major to the list of EU victims, but, ironically, it could help put him on the casualty list - the programme reopens wounds between the current prime minister and former UK Chancellor Norman Lamont over the Maastricht deal, and the zeal of the current crop of Euro-sceptics will no doubt be refuelled by the reminder. |
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| Subject Categories | History |
| Countries / Regions | United Kingdom |
