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Eoin Drea

Eoin Drea is a senior research officer with the Brussels-based Martens Centre, a centre-right thinktank dedicated to promoting European integration


January 2019

  • Margaret Thatcher papers released<br>Embargoed to 0001 Saturday July 21 File photo dated 21/9/1988 of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher giving her speech to an international audience at the College of Europe in the Belgian town of Bruges. Thatcher’s Bruges speech on the future of Europe became a seminal text for Eurosceptics in the UK but was partly inspired by a Europhile and never intended to be an anti-European speech, newly released documents suggest. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday July 21, 2018. A note to Mrs Thatcher from Hugh Thomas, then chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, set out how the Prime Minister might approach her Europe speech. See PA story HISTORY Thatcher Bruges. Photo credit should read: Rebecca Naden/PA Wire

    For the EU to prosper, Britain must leave

    Eoin Drea
    The UK never did understand the give and take required to make this relationship work, says Eoin Drea of the Martens Centre thinktank
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