On 20 September 1988, at the beginning of the 39th academic year of the College of Europe in Bruges, the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, delivers a speech on the future of Europe and condemns the bureaucratic and centralist tendencies of the Community tendencies of the Community system.

On 29 July 1988, illustrating the tensions between the United Kingdom and the European Communities, the British cartoonist, Michael Cummings, takes an ironic look at the difficult relations between Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, and Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission.

In its summer 1988 editorial, the federalist magazine L’Europe en formation criticises the European policy being pursued by the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and calls on the founding countries not to relax their efforts to create a united Europe, with particular regard to political and monetary union.

In his editorial of 21 September 1988, Emanuele Gazzo, Director of Agence Europe, explains why, in his opinion, the speech given in Bruges by Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, adds nothing new as regards the objectives of the European policy pursued by Britain’s Conservative Government.

On 21 September 1988, the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir examines closely the content of the speech given the day before at the College of Europe, Bruges, by the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

On 21 September 1988, the daily newspaper La Libre Belgique comments on the address given the previous day by Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, at the College of Europe in Bruges, in which she criticised the bureaucratic and centralising tendencies of the Community system.

On 22 September 1988, two days after the address given in Bruges by Margaret Thatcher, the French daily newspaper Le Monde comments on the British Prime Minister’s positions on European integration.

On 22 September 1988, discussing Margaret Thatcher’s notorious speech in Bruges, the Spanish daily newspaper El País outlines the British Prime Minister’s vision of Europe.

On 28 September 1988, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister, responds during a press conference to the speech on the future of Europe given in Bruges one week earlier by Margaret Thatcher.

On 30 December 1988, the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit analyses the vision of Europe expressed by the British Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, ten days previously during her address to the College of Bruges.

On 31 October 1988, the British left-wing daily newspaper The Guardian considers the political impact of the critical stance taken by Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, on the Delors Commission and European issues.

Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister (1979-1990).

On 28 April 1989, Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party, criticises the European policy of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, who does not hesitate to attack Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission.

In 1989, the German cartoonist, Walter Hanel, portrays the hesitations of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, with respect to Community Europe.