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#ThisWeekInDiplomacy #OTD in 1989, the Madrid European Summit saw UK isolated in opposing Delors plan linking Monetary Union and Social Charter.
There had been much internal wrangling in London in days prior...
There had been much internal wrangling in London in days prior...
Charles Powell, a foreign affairs adviser to PM Thatcher, suggested on 21 June, a form of words for Cabinet: hold out on Social Chapter but agree to beginnings of ERM without a firm commitment to join - knowing that stages 2 and 3 may never happen. 
Percy Cradock, Foreign Affairs Private Secretary to the PM: “it is of overriding strategic importance that we should not be marginalised in Europe”
