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JAMES
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FOREIGN SECRETARY -
DOORSTEP INTERVIEW 7 OCTOBER 1992
GATWICK AIRPORT
INTERVIEWER:
Foreign Secretary, could we just grab a couple of European
questions before you go off?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
Sure!
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INTERVI EWER:
With the Birmingham summit now just over a week away, is there
anything you are hoping that will come out which is going to help
you and the Prime Minister, something you can wave before the
Euro-sceptics which will help you push ratification through
Parliament?
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
This isn't a British exercise at Birmingham or not a British
exercise only because it is not only in Britain that people have
been worried about some of the directions the Community has been
taking.
What we want to do is to show at Birmingham and then more
specifically at Edinburgh that the Community has listened to these
anxieties and that it is going to restrict itself to those things
which we need to do together as Europeans, of which there are a
lot and it is going to restrain itself from too much intervention,
too much intrusiveness, into the lives of the citizen and the
nation state.
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