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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8098

24 November 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/united kingdom
Tony Blair and Jack Straw highlight need to pool sovereignty to strengthen it

London, 23/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, made a speech on Friday at the European Research Institute in Birmingham where he called for the UK to get more involved in Europe, saying that the "tragedy for British politics and for Britain is that too many politicians have consistently failed… to appreciate the reality of European integration and in doing so they have failed Britain's interests".

In the Independent newspaper the day before, the Foreign...

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