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It's State Papers day in Ireland, and as pointed out on RTE, 1990 is a particularly good year as Ireland held the presidency of the European Community, so there's a ton of timely commentary on Thatchers attitudes to the members states and vice versa: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/1226/1186478-state-papers-margaret-thatcher/
I never understood those who were dismayed at the result in 2016. Reading through some of Thatcher's thoughts here is a reminder of how deeply entrenched the opposition to the EC/EU was, at the highest level of UK government. Anyhow, a good read for the week that's in it.
""Germany has [only] been in existence for some 40 years. Belgium is simply the Walloons and the Flemings. The Dutch were part of the Hapsburg Empire … Italy was never one nation, Portugal is struggling and needs help … Recently Spain received a warning from the IMF"
The words of a PM to the Taoiseach, not an ERG member on a radio phone in show.
