Eurohoneymoon
At the Amsterdam summit, Tony Blair’s love for Europe, and its for him, are about to face their first serious test
WHATEVER becomes of Tony Blair's efforts to get the marriage of Britain and Europe to work, there is no doubting his efforts to seduce, before the planned consummation at the European Union's inter-governmental summit in Amsterdam on June 16th-17th. On June 11th Mr Blair flew straight from prime minister's questions in the House of Commons to the Elysée to court Jacques Chirac, France's president, ahead of the meeting—the fifth time his feet have touched soil across the Channel in six weeks in office. And European leaders have traipsed through Downing Street: Belgium's Jean-Luc Dehaene and Wim Kok, the Dutch prime minister, who heads the EU's council of ministers, were only the latest.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Eurohoneymoon”
From the June 14th 1997 edition
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