LAST NOVEMBER, Europe celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The contrast between Europe then and now demonstrates what the European Union (EU) has accomplished in the intervening years.
Despite the economic crisis, Europe has never been freer, more stable and more prosperous, and the union deserves considerable credit for that.
The EU is an institution of enormous importance to the United Kingdom and to British foreign policy. And although the Conservative party has seldom shied away from frank criticism when we have thought the EU has collectively been getting things wrong, we have equally been the foremost champions of the EU’s greatest achievements – the single market and enlargement.
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