We won in the UK, entered government in Finland, welcomed a new Italian party, won the Polish Presidency and are optimistic about the Danish election.
Thanks to a promise kept and a great deal of hard work, the ECR group means we have more and better allies than before.
I’ve seen first hand the contribution that this generation of young Poles is making to Britain – just as an earlier one did during the Battle of Britain.
Rumours of our decline are greatly exaggerated. Britain can make a difference to the world. Here’s how.
Our friends fear attack by Russia – we must state clearly that the NATO guarantee of mutual defence still stands.
By wisely using our historic links and the diaspora in the UK, we can benefit from economic and social ties with ‘Emerging Europe’.
The Iron Curtain crumbled in Eastern Europe. De Klerk took power in South Africa. The birth of the internet loomed…and the beginning of the end loomed for Mrs Thatcher.
But…
The Prime Minister’s plan to keep Britain in the EU stands a better chance of working than theirs.
His security men gave the miners’ relatives the treatment previously reserved for the decadent “alcoholics” and “homosexuals” of GeziPark.
Besides, one quarter’s figures do not alter the bigger picture. It may not be long before net migration from the EU exceeds that from the rest of the world.
New restrictions have also been placed on EU migrants wishing to come to the UK, which is in complete contrast to anything done by Labour.
Have economic changes and welfare reform made any difference to the desire to migrate from Eastern Europe?
There are plenty of ways of taking the initiative away from Moscow.
Much like the Know How Fund in the 1980s, the Good Governance Fund is designed to encourage political and economic reform in Eastern Europe.