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Part Three - Breaking Down the Borders

How British PM Margaret Thatcher gave the EU 'the ambition to advance'

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is remembered as one of Europe's most trenchant critics, yet under Thatcher's premiership the European Project advanced further and faster than at any time since the 1960s. Allan Little analyses Margaret Thatcher 's complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship with Europe. With contributions from Geoffrey Howe and Douglas Hurd.

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