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Anglo-American imperialists have their eye on 2000, here and in the UK
...
The embryonic "United Europe" is already fragmenting into the same
centuries-old rivalries between ambitious wannabee Rulers of the World --
Britain, Germany, France ..
British Tories Harden EU Stance
By MAUREEN JOHNSON
.c The Associated Press
BLACKPOOL, England (AP) - British opposition leader William Hague hardened
his Conservative Party's stance against a more unified Europe on Thursday,
ending a conference where Margaret Thatcher, idol of the right, made an
electrifying return.
In a keynote address, Hague said the Tories would veto a new European Union
treaty, which covers the proposed admission of former communist countries,
unless member states can opt out of most Europe-wide laws.
``When we're in government, the next new EU treaty must contain a flexibility
clause or else I tell you there will be no new treaty,'' Hague declared.
Delegates cheered, waved Britain's Union Jack national flag and sang ``Land
of Hope and Glory,'' a favorite Tory anthem, as Hague and his wife, Ffion,
made their way from the platform at the end of the 50-minute speech.
Party pro-Europeans were dismayed, however. And the Tories also were divided
over whether former Prime Minister Thatcher's attacks on European integration
and her plea for the release of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet
would help the party's dire ratings.
Pinochet, 83, has been detained in Britain for nearly a year fighting a
Spanish attempt to extradite him on charges of grave human rights abuses
during his 17-year rule, which began after he toppled an elected Marxist
president in 1973.
Robin Cook, foreign secretary in the Labor Party government, said the Tories
had ``finally lost touch with reality.'' If re-elected, the Conservative
Party would make British membership of the EU untenable, he said.
``In praising Pinochet and denouncing Europe, the Tories have shown that they
are now a party of the right-wing fringe, more interested in indulging their
prejudices than arguing for Britain's interests,'' Cook said in a statement
issued in London.
Taking a tough line on Europe and opposing adoption of the euro, the new
single currency used by 11 of the 15 EU members, are virtually the only
policies on which the Tories outscore Prime Minister Tony Blair's government
in opinion polls.
``He came out and called us extremists - as if wanting to keep control of our
own currency is extreme,'' said Hague, stung by Blair's attack on
conservatism during Labor's annual conference last week.
``He said we were fanatics - as if it's fanatical to speak up for the great
majority of British people who want to be in Europe, but not run by Europe,''
Hague added.
Hague lauded the Tory blueprint, the ``common sense'' revolution, unveiled in
this north England seaside resort town. It includes a pledge to seek to
renegotiate the EU's founding Treaty of Rome to allow countries to opt out of
EU-wide laws except those on free trade and the union's barrier-free single
market.
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