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.

Am 21. September 1988 nimmt die belgische Tageszeitung Le Soir den Inhalt der Rede unter die Lupe, die die britische Premierministerin Margaret Thatcher am Vortag im Europa-Kolleg in Brügge gehalten hat.

Am 21. September 1988 kommentiert die Tageszeitung La Libre Belgique die Rede, die die britische Premierministerin Margarat Thatcher tags zuvor im Europakolleg in Brügge gehalten hat und in der sie die bürokratischen und zentralistischen Ausuferungen des Gemeinschaftssystems kritisiert.

Nach der Rede Margarat Thatchers in Brügge kommentiert die französische Tageszeitung Le Monde am 22. September 1988 die Haltung der britischen Premierministerin zur europäischen Integration.

Am 22. September 1988 kommentiert die spanische Tageszeitung El País die berühmte Rede Margaret Thatchers in Brügge und beschreibt die Vision der britischen Premierministerin von Europa.

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 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.