1984 Apr 2 - 1984 May 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1228
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 24)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 334 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| 84 May 31 Th | Major | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("PESC projection of net payments to EEC institutions") ["extremely difficult to make any meaningful projections... level of our net payments will depend crucially on whether we reach early agreement on the budget imbalances problem"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 30 We | Major | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand's Speech to the European Parliament") [analysis; proposed UK response] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 28 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France/EC: interview with Dumas") [European political union; EC budget imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 24 Th | Major | European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("President Mitterrand's ideas on Community institutions") [details of address to the European Parliament: majority voting; political union; permanent secretariat] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 23 We | Major | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("EC: French views on majority voting and a European Council secretariat") [anticipation of Mitterrand speech to European Parliament: majority voting; political union; permanent secretariat] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 23 We | Major | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("European Community Budget negotiations") [budgetary discipline; 1983 refunds; ecu loan from member states to cover 1984 budget overrun] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 23 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [European Parliament elections; EC budget; UK refunds; EC draft budget for 1985; EC credit rating; Energy Council: coal; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 22 Tu | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The EC Budget: Kohl/Mitterrand meeting, Saarbruecken, 20 May") ["indications that parameters for a budget settlement were discussed... [possible] secret negotiation before the European elections"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 22 Tu | Major | European Policy: Howe minute to Ridley ("Transport Council: 10 May") [Howe congratulations on successful outcome: infrastructure; lorry quotas; air transport liberalisation -"one of our key policy objectives"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 21 Mo | Major | European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to Rifkind ("Private Member's Motion, Monday 21 May: Future of the European Community") [negotiations on EC budgetary imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 18 Fr | Major | European Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit (European Regional Development Fund) [report on outcome of Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 18 Fr | Major | European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("The Budget Negotiations") ["not making much headway... [UK] ready to work for a solution at the Fontainebleau European Council on 25/26 June"; suggested points for Ministers to make in bilateral contacts with European partners over the coming weeks] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 17 Th | Major | European Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("European Negotiations") [budget imbalance: negotiations with the French; Fontainebleau European Council 25/26 June; MT meeting with Kohl in London on 9 June] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 16 We | Major | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Community Credit Rating on New York Markets") [risk of Standard & Poor downgrading: MT opposes Treasury's proposed amendments to EC Commission reply to S&P] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 16 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet Office: Community Affairs") [Foreign Affairs Council 14/15 May: outcomes; reform of EC financing/UK refunds; Finance Ministers meeting 12/13 May: outcomes; Transport Council 10 May: outcomes; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 14 Mo | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Howe, Dumas, Legras, David Williamson) ["European Community: reform of the financing system and United Kingdom refunds"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 11 Fr | Major | European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("European Community") [MT "concerned that... we should be ready to put forward... specific initiatives of potential benefit to the [UK]": proposals] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 10 Th | Major | European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Community Budget 1984: Commission proposals for additional financing in excess of 1% VAT ceiling") [comments on Treasury paper] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 9 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Mitterrand; Lome III Convention: Regional Development Fund, trade arrangements; New Zealand butter imports; Agricultural Structures Group; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 8 Tu | Major | European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("1983 Refunds: Legal Case") [Howe "thinks that we should not rule out the option [of a legal challenge]; proposed policy lines pending advice from Law Officers] [declassified Jan 2014] |