European Community Affairs

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 8:17 pm on 10 July 1984.

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Photo of Robert Jackson Robert Jackson , Wantage 8:17, 10 July 1984

In my view, if we are to have an effective and concerted economic policy in Europe, it will involve a large transfer of expenditures through the regional and social funds and other mechanisms of industrial policy which will have the effect of counterbalancing the CAP.

I fear that I must repeat what I have said before in our debates on these matters. Until the Government face the real dimensions of a European economic policy, they will get no lasting satisfaction in Europe either in terms of the revival of the British economy or in terms of the narrower question of the reform of the Community budget.