A Study On The European Policy Of British Labour Government

Europe is the key direction that Britain's diplomacy focus on after world warⅡ。With the integration of Europe and the relationship between Britain and Europe becoming more and more tighted, Britain can't get rid of European easily in politics and economics。The former conservative leader John Major's European policy was not only solitaried Britain but also led great internal crisis。With Tony Blair's Labour government got power in 1997, they posed"be friendly to Europe, lead the Europe."Trying to improve the relationship with other European members, reshape Britain's figure,cooperate with other European members positively, push Europe to a united, democracy, peaceful and effective directions, rise the competitiveness of EU, construct EU military power。But we should see clearly that Blair's policy has dual characters: carrying forward EU's reforming without giving up Britain's sovereignty, supporting the EU co-market without taking too much responsibility, advocating the EU defense without giving up the special connection with the United States。Clearly, Blair government's European policy has taken on a conerecting, flexibility, continuous, balancing features.Of course, Blair's European policy has improved a lot compared to the former, but nowadays, nation is still the basic unit of international society, national interests is still the Britain's main focus。The EU can't take all member's interests into account, Moreover,as the main country of European, German and France has the different attitude of Blair's toward the development of European Union.Blair's Labour government's European policy has made a great influence on Europe, and the world。The Successor Brown has continued to use this policy。Above all, any country's foreign policy is to protect its own domestic interest,as an important member of the world, the Britain is not exceptional.