Soviet exposure to free markets and the free circulation of people and ideas. If as a result the Soviet Union moves closer to our
But it will happen because the values, that is all to the good.
Soviet leadership believe that is the right way to go, and not because we want it to happen.
- We should not therefore make gratuitous economic or political
concessions in the misguided belief that this will help to sustain the process of Soviet reform.
Our relations with the countries of Eastern Europe are developing
Economic too. We offer a simple and commonsense message. liberalisation requires political liberalisation.
The message does
not threaten. It promises a more secure and prosperous future for Eastern Europe, and ultimately for the Soviet Union also.
My Lords, Mr Gorbachev is fond of saying that Europe is our common
home.
On this side of the Berlin Wall Our reply is come inside.
we are building a common home based on common democratic values and economic liberalism. It is called the European Community.
NATO is the guarantor of our security.
The EC is the guarantor of
our prosperity. But is is more than that. As my rt hon friend the Prime Minister said in Bruges, we in the UK see our destiny lying in Europe. We are stronger for being part of the Community and through it we are able to project our values more widely and more
effectively.
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with much
The Bruges speech has been the subject of much comment of it missing the point. It was in fact a strongly pro-European speech full of specific and practical ideas about the way ahead.
no-one is talking about that. Not about a United States of Europe
How we can best apply About the kind of integration we want to see.
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our separate and individual strengths to the practical tasks we face as part of a common commitment to work towards what the Treaty of Rome calls the ever closer union of our peoples.
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