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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8354

5 December 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Tony Blair's balancing act must be viewed sympathetically, as long as it does not have the result of reducing Europe's ambitions

Tony Blair's efforts at remaining solidly attached to Community Europe and have his country play a central role, while making concessions to a large part of its citizens who have a phobia of that Europe, deserve praise. I'm sure that he is as convinced as you and me (or almost) of the need to strengthen and deepen the EU; but at the same time he is aware of the need to be cautious in what he says to reassure, not the radical Eurosceptics (who could?), but the mass of the population so...

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