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combined with a floating exchange rate), and adoption of the euro, as
monetary policy options for the United Kingdom … economic and monetary union has been a longstanding—though until the
late 1980s only a sporadic—part of the debate about the … concept
of economic and monetary union, with a 1980 deadline. In October 1972, Alec Douglas-
Home, the Foreign Secretary in …