Learning on ScreenMajor vetoes appointment of new EC president
- Title
- Major vetoes appointment of new EC president
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 27 Jun 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:03:47
- Description
- Chris Carnegy reports on UK Prime Minister John Major’s lone veto of Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgium’s Prime Minister from being appointed President of the EC at a summit in Corfu, his reasons for it and likely political impact. With reaction from leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown; Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd (in a BBC television interview); Labour MP and leadership candidate Tony Blair.
- Contributors
- Douglas Hurd; Paddy Ashdown; Tony Blair; BBC; Chris Carnegy
- Keywords
- Politics; Presidents; Europe; Summits (meetings); John Major; Political appointments; EC; Corfu; Jean Luc Dehaene; Jean-Luc Dehaene
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