Changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards Economic and Monetary Union

This bachelor thesis "Changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards Economic and Monetary Union" attempts to describe the changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards commencing Economic and Monetary Union. The main aim of this thesis is to define how and why the policy had changed. Introductory chapters are dealing with Margaret Thatcher and her foreign policy, with Great Britain and its relationship towards European integration and with the history of European Community until 1970s. The main body of this work sums up the main parts of Margaret Thatcher's policy. It is following the negotiations of British rebate, Margaret Thatcher's attitude towards the Common Agricultural Policy, Single European Act (and single market), European Monetary System and Exchange Rate Mechanism and Margaret Thatcher's posture on starting Economic and Monetary Union. In the conclusion the thesis tries to answer if the Margaret Thatcher's policy can be classified as intergovernmentalistic. The paper also tries to summarize the changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards the negotiation of the Economic and Monetary Union of European Community. The thesis also attempts to answer why this policy was changed and which factors led to these changes