Britain and the Maastricht negotiations
By: Anthony Forster.
Series: St. Antony's series
Publisher: St. Martin's Press in association with St. Anthony's College, Oxford
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: European Union -- Great Britain.
Description: Anthony Forster examines the British government's negotiation of the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty) which took place between December 1990 and December 1991. He provides a detailed account of both strands of the negotiations, the Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union (IGC-PU) and the Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union (IGC-EMU).

On the basis of documentary and interview-based evidence of leading participants from Britain and Europe, he casts doubt on the claim that the government won the negotiations game, set and match and analyses the enormous party-management problems and international pressures that John Major had to balance on succeeding Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.