ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to outline the main elements of French and British policies towards Europe in the 1980s. This is the difference between this chapter and chapters 2 and 3 in which the discourses were outlined. Foreign policy (according to the definition used in chapter 1) is the goverment’s activity concerned with relations to international actors. Policy is here understood as concrete activities in relation to international actors. That means the stances taken in negotiations, proposals put forward and declarations issued in relation to concrete problems etc. and, of course, the pattern formed by these concrete activities. An attempt will be made to use the political discourses described in chapters 2 and 3 to explicate the policies. 1
