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Published in 2014 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd

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Copyright 2014 Policy Network

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ISBN:978 1 78076 222 7 (HB)

ISBN:978 1 78076 223 4 (PB)

eISBN: 978 0 85773 464 8

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Roger Liddles analysis of how we got here is interesting and as expected well informed, but its his reflections on the approach pro-Europeans should take that could add a new dimension to the debate. Pro-Europeans have sometimes seemed to be in a competitive bidding process with Eurosceptics as to what powers we can repatriate, and how far we can chip away at the role of the EU. This is dead-end reasoning. Liddle makes a compelling case for an alternative and bolder British EU agenda.

Julian Priestley, secretary general of the European Parliament 19972007

Roger Liddle offers a fresh and shrewd account of the many missed opportunities in Britains relations with the EU including a frank assessment of the disappointments of Tony Blair, whom he served as an adviser in Downing Street. He concludes with an alternative view of how the UK could still play a positive and constructive role in Europe.

Peter Riddell, director of the Institute for Government

Riveting and realistic, this book offers by far the best-informed analysis I have read of the European dilemmas facing modern British governments, as well as the most cogent argument for European solutions to our national challenges.

Stephen Wall, formerly Britains permanent representative to the European Union

This is a hard-hitting account of the frustrating politics of British European policy across the decades from an insider who persists in holding to a positive case for full-hearted British engagement in Europe. Roger Liddle provides a fine-grained analysis of the squandered opportunities as well as the achievements of New Labours period in office and offers salutary comments on the dilemmas facing the Conservative Party and future governments. He is surely right in arguing that for the British to be at ease with Europe requires conviction in their souls and not only appeals to their pocket books.

Helen Wallace, emeritus professor in the European Institute, LSE

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Contents

What is Britains future in Europe? This book revisits an old argument, but for dramatically new times. The old argument is about Britains semi-detachedness from Europe and whether that posture could ever change. The new times are the crisis in the eurozone and its wider impact on the European Unions future. While logic may point to deeper integration, the politics associated with the EUs problems make this a significant and possibly insurmountable challenge. Where should Britain stand? What future should Britain want for the EU? And how important is continued membership of the EU for Britains future? This book offers new answers to these questions from the perspective of an author who has combined experience at the heart of the British government as Tony Blairs European adviser with understanding of Europe from the inside working at a senior level in the European Commission. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the future of British and European politics.

In the series:

After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe

Edited by Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond

ISBN: 978 1 84885 992 0 (HB); 978 1 84885 993 7 (PB)

Europes Immigration Challenge: Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility

Edited by Elena Jurado and Grete Brochmann

ISBN: 978 1 78076 225 8 (HB); 978 1 78076 226 5 (PB)

Left Without a Future? Social Justice in Anxious Times

Anthony Painter

ISBN: 978 1 78076 660 7 (HB); 978 1 78076 661 4 (PB)

Progressive Politics after the Crash: Governing from the Left

Edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan

ISBN: 978 1 78076 763 5 (HB); 978 1 78076 764 2 (PB)

Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister

Patrick Diamond

ISBN: 978 1 78076 581 5 (HB); 978 1 78076 582 2 (PB)

The Europe Dilemma: Britain and the Drama of EU Integration

Roger Liddle

ISBN: 978 1 78076 222 7 (HB); 978 1 78076 223 4 (PB)

Glossary of Abbreviations

AECR	Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
AES	Alternative Economic Strategy
AfPak or Af-Pak	Afghanistan and Pakistan
ANZAC	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
ASTMS	Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
AUEW	Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
BoE	Bank of England
BRIC	Brazil, Russia, India and China
BSE	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad cow disease
CAP	Common Agricultural Policy
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany
CFSP	Common Foreign and Security Policy
CND	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
COREPER	Committee of Permanent Representatives
COSAC	Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union
EAEC	European Atomic Energy Community or Euratom
EBA	European Banking Authority
EC	European Commission
ECB	European Central Bank
ECHR	European Convention on Human Rights
ECJ	European Court of Justice

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