Paper Details

Name: Balasubramanya P. S.
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-12, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 440-444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18620560

ABSTRACT:
This paper mainly explains Tony Blair’s Labour Government’s Policies Towards European Union during his third term of the premiership. After the UK’s membership to the EU in 1973, it had not actively engaged in the European Union’s policies and implementation process. From 1973 to 1996, the successive UK Prime Ministers followed a negative and sceptical attitude towards various EU policy initiatives, and none of the UK Prime Ministers
showed any special interest in improving their relations with the EU. In this context, the study of Tony Blair’s third premiership plays an important role in understanding UK-EU relations from 1997 to 2007. Tony Blair’s Labour government made a huge difference in the EU-UK relationship. The Labour government, from the very beginning, made clear to the UK citizens that their government would take a more proactive and constructive role in the EU
policy-making and various developmental programmes. In this context, the study of Tony Blair’s Labour government’s third-term policies and perspectives towards the European Union gives a better understanding of the United Kingdom and the European Union’s relations, policies, and perspectives during that period.

KEYWORDS: European Union, United Kingdom, Globalisation, Iraq war, Constitutional treaty, Referendum