World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Thatcher to Head Anti-Unity Group
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has agreed to become the first president of a bipartisan group of British lawmakers opposed to a federal Europe, press reports said. The organization is known as the Bruges Group, after the Belgian city where Thatcher in a 1988 speech expressed her opposition to full political union in Europe. That position helped lead to her resignation in November.
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