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Circle of stars: a history of the EU—and the people who made it
. By
Dermot
Hodson
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New Haven, CT and London
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Yale University Press
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2023
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456
pp. £25.00. Isbn978 0 30026 769 3. Available as e-book.
Fraser Cameron European Policy Centre , Brussels Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 3, May 2024, Pages 1338–1339, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae115
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07 May 2024
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It was an exciting time to be a Eurocrat during the negotiations for the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s. European Commission President Jacques Delors had the backing of leaders of the European Union member states—including UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—to press ahead with the single market at full speed. There were ambitious plans for a single currency, and the EU was to be given new powers in the areas of foreign policy and internal security. Morale was high even though it was far from ‘the hour of Europe’—the unfortunate phrase used by Luxembourg's foreign minister, Jacques Poos, when the Yugoslav conflict erupted in 1990. But then, Boris Johnson entered the stage. As the newly arrived Brussels correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, Johnson pressed this reviewer, then working for Delors, on how the EU would cope with enlargement and its new responsibilities under the Maastricht Treaty. My reply was: with a mixture of political will and more qualified majority voting. A few days later, Johnson's story was published with the headline ‘Delors plans to rule Europe’—a message that was then used on a poster for the ‘No’ campaign in the Danish referendum on the treaty in June 1992, which the government lost by 51 per cent of votes to 49.
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