PRIME MINISTER'S WRITTEN INTERVIEW WITH THE
HINDUSTAN TIMES
What kind of Europe is likely to emerge, taking into account sweeping changes in Eastern Europe and the imminent German
unification?
1.
Do you think that the relationship between Britain and the Continent will change in some way after the two Germanies have
re-united?
2.
That depends on what we make of the changes which are taking place. But the opportunities are there to create a more democratic and more prosperous Europe than we have ever seen.
I have recently proposed that we should try to establish a great Alliance for Democracy stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals. This would mean building on the framework of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe to extend the principles of parliamentary democracy and the market economy right across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
At the same time, we shall be completing the Single Market in the European Community, which will represent the most tremendous change in the way in which the European countries run their economies. The purpose is to establish a genuinely open market, free from barriers and subsidies of all sorts.
Our vision is of a Europe of independent sovereign
countries, co-operating ever more closely but preserving their individual national characteristics and traditions because that is what gives us our strength.
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