LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Tony Blair: New Labour
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Ever the self-aware fellow, Blair first assesses blame on himself and New Labor for "courting, assuaging, and persuading" the press hounds in an effort to end what he calls its "ferocious hostility." Exactly how this courting damaged the news-gathering process, Blair doesn't disclose. He seems to be implying that he regarded the press as a pack of mad dogs when he became prime minister, taught it a few new tricks, and got it to behave for an interval, but now the institution has regressed to its snarling and foaming ways.
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The new road opened by Blair and Chirac leads, potentially, a long way. Not to a Europe which is hostile to the US - this is unthinkable - but to one which is a more integrated and more independent and therefore a better partner for America. The St Malo ideas were embodied in the Nice treaty. Since then the European Union has built up machinery for dealing with political and military questions on a daily basis, including a modest military staff. It has undertaken four military missions, two in the Balkans and two in the Congo - one of these may have prevented serious bloodshed. In addition to this, and not foreseen at St Malo, the EU has ... undertaken a whole series of non-military missions in crisis areas including the monitoring of the peace settlement in Aceh and the border crossing at Rafah (between Gaza and Egypt).
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Working within tight budgetary constraints, Blair’s government prioritized spending on education, national healthcare, and an extensive welfare-to-work program for young adults. The welfare-to-work program won praise for placing many unemployed in jobs. However, Blair and Labour aroused strong opposition for reducing benefits to single parents—another part of the government’s welfare reform program.
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TONY BLAIR was accused last night of caving in to American pressure by proposing a watered-down replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding greenhouse gas cuts as the solution to climate change. Mr Blair’s proposal …
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On July 11, 2006, annnouncing the results of the energy review, Blair confirmed what everyone already knew that he would give the green light to a new generation of nuclear power plants. Blair said:
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Blair called an election in the spring of 2005 and won an unprecedented third majority (albeit with a reduced number of seats). His party won just 36 per cent of the popular vote – a record low for a winning party. Blair had said before the election that he would not lead Labour into a fourth election, but signalled that he wanted to stay around for a full third term.
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