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Lidington: Making Progress

'People need a laser focus on building Europe鈥檚 competitiveness and enabling growth', writes Minister for Europe on his blog

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Minister for Europe, David Lidington

Minister for Europe, David Lidington

鈥楢 little over a year ago, the wrote a piece analysing Britain鈥檚 place in Europe. There wasn鈥檛 a lot of good news. Efforts to reform the way Brussels works were simply 鈥渕aking things worse鈥 as 鈥渙ther countries are tiring of British demands鈥. The best we could hope for, it was argued, was to 鈥渞ediscover the virtues of muddling along鈥.鈥

鈥楾hey were wrong. The last year shows why.鈥

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Published 7 January 2014