Britain `will not stand for single defence policy'

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 31, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The Government will never yield to the idea of a common European defence policy dictated from Brussels, Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Defence, said yesterday. British policy would remain based on the "fundamental and unshakeable" conviction that defence and security should be based on co-operation between nation states, Mr Rifkind said.

As he dismissed the notion of a federal Europe, he pressed strongly for a new era of Euro-American co-operation in the form of an Atlantic Community, to work alongside Nato, to strengthen transatlantic trade and economic links as well as defence.

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