The UK presidency: a view from Brussels

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Centre for Economic Policy Studies director Peter Ludlow believes that the UK failed to provide the required leadership during its presidency of the European Community (EC), despite taking into account some significant policy successes as well as simple bad luck. The UK not only failed to view its EC presidency from a supranational perspective, but failed to make sufficient use of Brussels institutions, leading to organisational deficiencies. The greatest problem affecting the British presidency was the UK government's loss of almost all credibility following a number of political and economic disasters.

Speeches, lectures and essays, Transcript, Ludlow, Peter

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The UK presidency: an inside view

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From a British perspective, the UK presidency of the European Community (EC) was a success. Despite having to contend with the legal and political problems arising from Denmark's rejection of the Maastricht treaty, the UK oversaw the passing of measures regarding the Single Market, the environment and transport. During its presidency, the UK worked towards extending membership of the EC to Finland, Sweden and Austria and improving relations between the EC and central and eastern Europe. Despite criticism of the UK presidency, a number of agreements were reached at the Edinburgh European Council.

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The 1998 UK presidency: a view from Brussels

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It is difficult to arrive at an objective assessment on European Union (EU) presidencies. The 1998 UK presidency presided over 45 council meetings, eight informal ministerial meetings, 65 meetings of Coreper 1 and 2 and 1,500 working group sessions in 22 weeks during the first half of 1998. The difficulty of arriving at an honest conclusion is further magnified if highly-publicized events such as the EU-Japan meeting in Jan 1998, the European Conference in Mar 1998, the EU-Asia meeting in Apr 1998 and the EU-US summit meeting in May 1998 are considered.

Political aspects, European Union, Western Europe

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