Mr. Cameron's team are not proposing to revive the non-coop policy that John Major tried during the "beef war" of 1996, another unhappy Tory European memory.

卡梅伦先生的团队并不打算恢复约翰·梅杰在1996年的“牛肉战争”期间尝试的不作为政策，这是保守党在欧洲留下的另一个不愉快的记忆。

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Mr Cameron's team are not proposing to revive the non-coop policy that John Major tried during the "beef war" of 1996, another unhappy Tory European memory.

卡梅伦的队伍并非提议重拾1996年约翰•梅杰采用的“不作为”政策（non-coop policy），是时英国与欧盟进行“牛肉战”，这也是保守党在对欧盟问题上一个惨痛的回忆。

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That is a tactic that the Tories tried in the original beef war.

ECONOMIST: Beef

The proposal on ending the beef war was formally backed by 650 votes to 11 at the daily voting session on 14 March 2012.

BBC: MEPs back end to hormone beef war

They may be particularly wary of setting precedents that they may later regret: the beef war is widely seen as a forerunner for a larger battle about genetically modified crops.

ECONOMIST: At daggers drawn