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	Bruges Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bruges Group is a euro-sceptic think tank associated with the British Conservative Party.
		It claims to be an all-party group but its Honorary President is the Baroness Thatcher, its co-chairs are Brian Hindley and Norman Lamont, and its Director is Robert Oulds and it has no non-Conservative politicians on its board.
		Originally set up by Oxford University student Patrick Robertson following Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988, the group quickly became a focus for mounting euro-scepticism, stoked by the speeches of then EU Commission president Jacques Delors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruges_Group (389 words)

	Bruges - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bruges, city in north-west Belgium, capital of West Flanders Province, near the port of Ostend.
		Early in her third and final term of office, Margaret Thatcher delivered a speech at the College of Europe in Bruges.
		Social and economic changes in the 19th century lessened the general enthusiasm for lace, and it disappeared from men's clothing.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Bruges.html (98 words)

	Enoch Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The speech catalysed a debate that was one of several strands leading to the Care in the Community initiative of the 1980s.
		Conversely, Powell had issued an advance copy of his speech to the media and their appearance at the speech may have been due to the fact that they realised the content was explosive.
		Thatcher's Bruges Speech[2] in 1988 and her increasing hostility to the abolition of the pound sterling in the last years of her premiership, Powell made many speeches publicly supporting her attitude to Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enoch_Powell (3889 words)

	Bruges Hotel
		Bruges, Gironde, France and Bruges, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.'' ", Bruges has many waterways that run through the city.]] Bruges (Flemish: ''Brugge'' (a name probably signifying ''landing stage'')) is the historic capital of West Flanders, Flanders being one of the three regions of Belgium.
		Bruges is one of Belgium's chief tourist attractions, and was European Capital of Culture in 2002, together with Salamanca.
		The oldest trade settlement of Bruges and the early medieval port were accessible from the sea until around 1050.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/26/bruges-hotel.html (1367 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| eG weekly \| To Brussels, on the gravy train
		"Bruges graduates fill more than 30 of the 200 or so places in the cabinets of the incoming commission, including several of my own cabinet members," the commission president, Jose Barroso, said in his speech to this year's Bruges intake - the first speech of his mandate.
		This philosophy of "friendship through decadence" lives on in Bruges and Natolin, and indeed arguably in Brussels today, where former students of the College of Europe have become well-paid civil servants with abundant benefits and holiday entitlement (the starting salary in the European commission is €3,800 a month - £2,620 - after tax).
		Bruges is by no means a good indicator of all that, even if it does indicate academic ability and, probably, one or two EU contacts." Only one of the 20 staff at the Centre went to Bruges, he said.
	education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,,1427171,00.html (1165 words)

	College of Europe - News & Events - Speeches
		Speech by Lionel Jospin at the College of Europe (Bruges Campus), 4 April 2006.
		Speech by Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union.
		Speech by Marcus Pollard, Student of the College of Europe (Bruges Campus), during the plenary session of the Committee of the Regions, 17 November 2004
	www.coleurop.be /template.asp?pagename=speeches (405 words)

	The Bruges Group
		The Bruges Group has had a major effect on public opinion, and forged links with Members of Parliament as well as with similarly minded groups in other countries.
		The Bruges Group aims to promote discussion on the European Union and to advance the education of the public on European affairs.
		Bruges Group publications are always characterised by clarity, and a willingness to think the unthinkable.
	www.brugesgroup.com /about/index.live (539 words)

	Blair backs Thatcher EU speech
		TONY BLAIR will today say that Lady Thatcher was not unjustified in making her Bruges speech in 1988 in which she opposed a European superstate and interference from Brussels.
		The Bruges speech was a watershed in the Conservative government's attitude towards Europe, which culminated in the decision at Maastricht to opt out of the social chapter and the single currency.
		In the speech, which Eurosceptics adopted as a symbol of resistance to a federal Europe, she attacked the centralising approach of the European Commission, expressing the fear that it would stop Tory policies to make labour markets more flexible.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/02/23/nblur23.html (585 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Blair takes a leaf from Thatcher's book
		Over the intervening years the Bruges group went further than Lady Thatcher did in her now famous speech, and many now believe that Tory Eurosceptics want to see Britain out of the EU altogether - something she never advocated.
		Tony Blair's speech in Ghent, however, is unlikely to have the same effect on his party as the Bruges speech did on the Tories.
		Her speech was far less anti-European than it is now regularly portrayed and many of her concerns about the creation of an over arching European superstate have been accepted not only by the Labour party but by other EU states.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/653976.stm (566 words)

	The Bruges Group
		In a speech to the European Parliament before the Bruges speech Delors had predicted that 80% of decisions would be taken at European level in ten years time.
		In February 1989 the Bruges Group was set up to campaign vigorously for the goals outlined in the Bruges speech thus becoming the first Eurosceptical organisation of the modern era.
		In a speech to the Bruges Group, Enoch Powell defined the men of Bruges as "the people who had hoped, and hope still to see their country again an independent selfgoverning nation." He further declared that "nothing will ever be the same since 20 September 1988.
	www.brugesgroup.com /mediacentre/index.live?article=92 (4594 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Blair does a Thatcher to the EU, only ruder
		In a blunt, at times passionate, 30-minute speech to the European Parliament in Brussels the Prime Minister poured scorn on the EU's habit of responding to crises with navel-gazing and tinkering with its institutions.
		Visitors in the public gallery likened his address to Margaret Thatcher's 1988 speech in Bruges, when she sounded the alarm about a "European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels".
		Compared to Lady Thatcher's Bruges oratory, Mr Blair was much ruder, mocking the EU for issuing empty declarations at times of crisis and hinting that France and Germany should tackle their own economic woes before lecturing him.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2Z3PMCZHJQYKZQFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/06/24/nblah24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/24/ixnewstop.html (894 words)

	UK & EU
		The speech focuses on the issues surrounding closer involvement with the European Union.
		This speech was the first to question the notion of a federal Europe.
		Speech given by Conservative Party MP Michael Portillo in Westminster Central Hall on 10th April 1999.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/GRC/FP/ukandeu.htm (4032 words)

	Czech President Warns Against “Europeanism”
		In a speech to the prestigious Mont Pelerin Society, Vaclav Klaus explained that the defeat of communism does not necessarily mean more freedom if new forms of statism are used to control people's lives.
		The most impressive speech during the recent Regional Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society was undoubtedly Czech President Václav Klaus’s “View from a Post-Communist Country in a Predominantly Post-Democratic Europe.” Klaus has been an MPS member since 1990 and likes to attend the MPS meetings.
		Though his political obligations (as Prime Minister from 1992 to 1997 and President since 2002) do not always allow him to attend, he combined his presence at the MPS meeting in Reykjavik with an official visit to the Republic of Iceland.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article4559.html (764 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Margaret Thatcher: The Great Speeches [Audiobook]: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Speeches tend to be ignored save for the soundbites, and if the major points cannot be put into bulleted forms for display in the blue box above the newsanchor's shoulder, then often it will be ignored.
		Harris wisely included the Bruges Speech made in 1988 which left a very strong impression on the Conservative Party and left no one in any doubt as to her position on Europe.
		Her use of language, as shown by so many of her speeches reproduced in this volume, is first rate and compelled the electorate, party and MP's to keep her in the leadership of party and country for so long.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1904734022 (1375 words)

	Margaret Thatcher - Wikiquote
		From France to the Phillipines, from Jamaica to Japan, from Malaysia to Mexico, from Sri Lanka to Singapore, privatisation is on the move...The policies we have pioneered are catching on in country after country.
		Speech to the House of Lords rejecting the Maastricht Treaty (7 June, 1993)
		The star of that year's conference was undoubtedly the Swedish conservative leader—since Prime Minister—who delivered a speech of such startling Thatcherite soundness that in applauding I felt as if I was giving myself a standing ovation.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Margaret_Thatcher (3155 words)

	Robert Oulds - Free Market News Network
		Robert Oulds, Director of London-based Bruges Group, has made a specialty of analyzing and opposing the European Union and its political propaganda.
		The Bruges Group was set up in February 1989, to promote the idea of a less centralized European structure than that emerging in Brussels.
		Its inspiration was Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988, in which she remarked that "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level."
	www.freemarketnews.com /Writers-Bio-Analysis.asp?wid=108 (403 words)

	Hotel Bruges
		The name Bruges comes from the Old Norse "Bryggja" which means 'landing stage'.
		Britain & Europe The text of the speech delivered in Bruges by The Rt.
		Your city of Bruges has many other historical associations for us in Britain.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/89/hotel-bruges.html (1365 words)

	CIB - ACML - Winter 2002
		Speech by Anti Poolamets, Board Member of the Estonian No To The EU Campaign, and Lawyer and Lecturer in the Academy of Public Administration, Tallinn, at the Bruges Group International Conference, King's College, London, on Saturday 2nd November, 2002.
		It was at once humbling and inspiring to hear of their brave campaign, fought with very little funds and in the face of seemingly impossible odds, as it was to witness their strong and sincere appreciation of British help to Estonia in 1918 - mentioned by Mr.
		Parliamentary democracy, established and developed in Britain, is based on the sovereignty of the people, who, by exercising their vote, lend their sovereign powers to Members of Parliament to use on behalf of the people for the duration of a single Parliament.
	www.bullen.demon.co.uk /acml14.htm (4742 words)

	Socialism and the EU - Quotations on Europe
		Speech to France's top diplomats, 30 August 2004.
		Speech to the UK TUC in 1991, outlining the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty.
		it was such a good speech it had a whole think tank named after it.
	www.liebreich.com /LDC/HTML/Europe/11-Socialism.html (512 words)

	Thatcher Project/Richard S. Conley/University of Florida
		In a speech to the European Parliament in July 1988 Delors asserted that within a decade European legislation in the economic, fiscal, and social spheres would inevitably come to supplant national legislation.
		Thatcher's speech sent shock waves through Europe, and spawned the 'Bruges Group' of the Conservative Party to combat movement toward a centralised, federalist Europe which Lady Thatcher continues to chair.
		The latter two dates are coincident to Thatcher's Bruges speech and month of resignation, respectively, but it is impossible to ascertain what effect, if any, these events may have had on party opinions.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rconley/Thatcher.htm (6491 words)

	Prime Minister's Speeches - 2000 - Committed to Europe, Reforming Europe
		At a time when the European Union is embarking on radical expansion and internal reform, I would like to take a moment to put the challenges facing Europe in context.
		That is why I am determined that Britain should play its full part in Europe - for the same reason that Belgium or France play their full part in Europe: because that is what is best for my country.
		My disagreement with Mrs Thatcher's speech in Bruges is not that its criticisms were all unjustified.
	www.numberten.gov.uk /output/Page1510.asp (2907 words)

	Oikeusministeriö - Mr. Lipponen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Paavo Lipponen's speech in the Conference on Fundamental Rights in Future Europe, held in Helsinki 18th-19th of March 2002.
		But as important as the Charter was the example of inviting the key institutions in the Union to work together in an efficient and open manner and by listening to the civil society.
		It was largely the good experiences from this process that led me to propose in my speech in Bruges, in November 2000 that we should set up a wide-based Convention to prepare the next treaty reform.
	www.om.fi /tulostus/14706.htm (1565 words)

	Guardian \| Prodi's European police hope
		The European commission president, Romano Prodi, yesterday called for an EU-wide police force and tighter border controls to fight terrorism in the wake of September 11.
		He used a speech in Bruges to urge the union to become a global player, implicitly attacking Tony Blair's invitation-only "mini-summits" for big players in the Afghan war.
		Officials billed the speech as a mid-term relaunch after criticism of Mr Prodi's lacklustre performance, and suggestions that the supranational commission and the "community method" of pooling sovereignty have been badly undermined by governments since last year's Nice summit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4297784-108952,00.html (414 words)

	EU Referendum - View topic - The fifty-year old speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Of course a speech can be well timed, truthful, and have public support, but still not work.
		Recently I had been thinking of Enoch Powell’s "Rivers of Blood" speech that sent him into political exile; he deserves to be remembered and exonerated, but even after so much he predicted has begun to unfold we have politicians who are too PC to speak his subject matter.
		Hague doesn't have to become the leader to make a speech like this, indeed he's best placed now to make such a speech in foreignland if he so chose.
	www.eureferendum.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1390 (1672 words)

	EuroPolls: About The Participants \| Debating the European single currency, the euro, and Economic and Monetary Union. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The inspiration behind the Bruges Group was Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech of September 1988.
		The Bruges Group claims that it "soon had a major effect on public opinion." It forged links with other like-minded organisations across the EU.
		The Bruges Group insists that "economic and monetary union must be declared a non-starter." The Bruges Group seeks a renegotiation of the treaties.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /gajarvis/emudebate/participants.html (1995 words)

	Blair Speaks His Mind on Europe
		Blair took the floor in the historical city of Ghent to express his European views.
		Only a few miles from Bruges, where his predecessor Margaret Thatcher lashed out at Europe in her famous speech, twelve years ago.
		"My disagreement with Mrs Thatcher´s speech in Bruges is not that all her criticisms were unjustified.
	www.rnw.nl /hotspots/archive/gbr/html/uk000224.html (421 words)

	Heed 'wake-up call,' Blair tells EU - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blair poured scorn on the EU's habit of responding to crises with navel-gazing and tinkering with its institutions.
		Blair was much ruder, mocking the EU for issuing empty declarations at times of crisis and hinting that France and Germany should tackle their own economic woes before lecturing him.
		Blair's speech received scattered applause, some heckling and long periods of sullen silence from members.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20050623-112431-1650r.htm (448 words)

	France Will Never Let Turkey Into the EU
		Blair's speech a couple of weeks ago sounded like he was celebrating a victory of Britain's view of Europe: more economics, less politics.
		Yet, the Tories were fast to say that he is deluding himself: that in fact he lost the battle for a more integrated Britain, they said.
		You compare Blair's speech in Oxford to Blair's speech in the European Parliament to a speech John Major gave in March 1997 just before Blair's election victory, to Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech of 1988: they are virtually identical.
	www.aina.org /news/20060308214304.htm (2554 words)

	Dutch want EU to return power to nation states - The Washington Times: World Briefings - June 06, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It said it was time to consider taking back control of health, culture, social policy, aid to poor regions and the subsidy regime of the Common Agricultural Policy.
		The proposal marks a dramatic departure for a founding member of the European Union that once could be counted on to support every push for closer union.
		A senior Dutch official said the speech was intended to be a warning to a high-handed elite in Brussels that appears to have lost touch with reality.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20040606-120736-3651r.htm (561 words)

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