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Article: Decision time: Britain and Europe.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Earlier this year, events provided a fitting commentary on the mixture of tragedy and farce that has been the history of the ill-starred attempt to create a European super-state. When the "Intergovernmental Conference" (IGC) convened at Turin on March 29, 1996, to revise the Treaty of Maastricht with a view to expanding the membership of the European Union, the main topic turned out to be "mad cow disease" (BSE) and its alleged link to Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (CJD).
A panic had spread across Europe after an apparent acceptance by the British government that such a link might exist and, in consequence, a decision was taken by the European Commission that Britain ...