...she told a European gathering in Bruges, Belgium (where the Europe College is located), that she had "not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the...European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels." This contrasts with the European Commission president, Jacques Delors, who suggested to...

...fellow European leaders last month when , <he toW a European gathering in Bruges, Belgium, that she had "not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a Euro* pean level, with a European superstate exercising a new domin.incr frbm Brussels.* Last Wednesday....

...claim is inherent in excessive centralization. As Prime Minister Thatcher of Great Britain put it, "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels. ... It is a matter of plain common sense that we cannot totally abolish frontier controls...

...ensure that our approach to world trade is consistent with the liberalisation we preach at home . . . We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.' Here, then, is the classic exposition of Thatcherite views on Europe, an exposition in which...

...Britain had been proclaimed in 1987. 'We have not,' Thatcher insisted in her Bruges address of 1988, 'successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state...European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.'28 Indeed not. But the acute dilemma was not solved by Litde English voluntarism. Britain...

...decisions away from the centre, some in the Community seem to want to move in the opposite direction. . . . We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels. Yet even Mrs Thatcher's view implied that regional arrangements had to be strengthened and...

...the currency.103 Two days later, in her infamous Bruges speech, Thatcher became even more forthright: 'We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.'104 For his part, on 25 January 1989 Lawson delivered a similarly withering attack: It is...

...decisions away from the centre, some in the Community seem to want to move in the opposite direction. We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European super-State exercising a new dominance from Brussels. Certainly we want to see Europe more united and with a greater sense of common purpose. But...

...different direction as she pointed out in her famous Bruges speech on 22 September 1988. In her view, "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels." Delors' emphasis on the "joint exercise of sovereignty" in the Community clearly countered...

...FT 13 May 1992, p. 9. 31 As Mrs Thatcher famously put it in her Bruges speech of 20 September 1988, "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers...European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels". 32 One obvious possibility was that lower social costs in Britain could mean lower unit...