William Hague says the Conservatives have made 'a strategic decision' not to pick a fight with the rest of Europe if they win the election
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FT on 9th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Yesterday Labour MP Denis MacShane sent an email to various hacks attacking Conservative MP William Hague and accused him of "laying down a smokescreen" over Tory allies in Europe. He followed up with ten questions for William Hague and the Conservative Party over Europe. Having seen a copy of the email, we publish it here in full.
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LiberalConspiracy on 2nd Nov 2009 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Jim Murphy MP, Labour’s Europe Minister, responding to William Hague’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference today said: “Yet again the Conservatives have failed to come clean over their plans for Europe. Today William Hague refused to rule out a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty even if it is ratified by every other EU country. As he well knows the only way to reopen negotia...
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LabourParty on 3rd Oct 2008 (via labour.org.uk)
Labour Has Left Britain On The Fringes Of Europe, wrote shadow foreign secretary William Hague in The Spectator. Hague is right, but what his posturing fails to communicate is that his and the Conservatives’ policies are even worse. Almost every Conservative promise would propel the UK even further away from the slipstream of Europe. Leaving the mainstream EPP-ED political group is but one e...
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Grahnlaw on 29th May 2009 (via grahnlaw.blogspot.com)
William Hague the shadow foreign secretary has said that a Conservative government would not go to battle with Europe over returning sovereignty to Britain for a number of years.
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Telegraph on 8th Nov 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Those who hate the new Conservative-led government and those who love it seem to be united in one expectation: that Europe policy may be the coalition's downfall. David Lidington, the able new Europe minister, certainly has his work cut out for him. In the latest of the Brussels journal Europe's World, Foreign Secretary William Hague lays out the government's Europe policy, a policy...
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Spectator on 18th May 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Negotiation is the key to our relationship with Europe, not turning our backs on it, says William Hague.
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Telegraph on 21st Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague has set out an agenda to put UK back at the heart of Europe by getting more Britons to find jobs in the corridors of power in Brussels.
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Scotsman on 1st Jul 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The Conservatives will probably win the next general election William Hague the shadow foreign secretary has said.
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Telegraph on 29th Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
SHADOW foreign secretary William Hague today pledged the Conservatives would repair the damaged relationship between Holyrood and Westminster.
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Scotsman on 26th Apr 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
In an interview with the FT, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has said a future Conservative government would seek to restore full British control over employment law and social policy while campaigning against the "the centralising ratchet" of the EU.
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OpenEurope on 23rd Jul 2008 (via openeurope.org.uk)