The author analyzes the evolution of the Great Britain's approach to the integration processes in Europe, demonstrates the dual nature of it's policy as regards those processes and makes an attempt to reveal what lies at the basis of the UK's «European policy».

Great Britain, European integration, European Union, «special relations» with the USA, Ch. de Gaulle, H. McMillan, E. Heath, M. Thatcher, T. Blair, D. Cameron, euro, Lisbon Treaty