AN ASSESSMENT OF THE UK’S 1998 EU PRESIDENCY DURING TONY BLAIR’S PERIOD
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i1.2022.3687Keywords:
European Union, United Kingdom, Tony Blair, Labour Party, 1998 EU PresidencyAbstract [English]
This paper mainly analyses UK’s 1998 EU Presidency during Tony Blair’s period. Tony Blair came to power in the UK after the 1997 UK General election. Before the election, the Labour Party introduced the pro-European policy strategy goals in its 1997 UK general election manifesto. This was wholeheartedly supported by the UK people in the 1997 general election and the Labour Party won the election by a huge majority of votes in its Labour party history. This election gave a new direction to the UK’s EU policy. Under Tony Blair’s premiership, the Labour government’s 1998 EU presidency was considered an important step in EU-UK relations. The agenda of the 1998 UK presidency of the EU was different from the agenda of the 1992 UK presidency. During John Major’s government’s 1992 EU presidency, the major challenges before them were financial issues, the negotiation of the Danish opt-outs and other issues. But Major’s government somehow succeeded in settling all these issues. But, its achievements during the 1992 EU presidency were insignificant when compared to Tony Blair’s New Labour government’s 1998 EU presidency. Against this backdrop, the study of the 1998 UK EU presidency plays an important role in better understanding the EU-UK relations during Tony Blair’s period.
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