Lidington: Making Progress - GOV.UK

World news story LIDINGTON: MAKING PROGRESS 'People need a laser focus on building Europe’s competitiveness and enabling growth', writes Minister for Europe on his blog This was

published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government ‘A little over a year ago, the Economist wrote a piece analysing Britain’s place in Europe. There

wasn’t a lot of good news. Efforts to reform the way Brussels works were simply “making things worse” as “other countries are tiring of British demands”. The best we could hope for, it was

argued, was to “rediscover the virtues of muddling along”.’ ‘They were wrong. The last year shows why.’ Find out more on David Lidington’s blog. SHARE THIS PAGE The following links open in a

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