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1984 Aug 1 - 1984 Oct 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1231
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 27)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 392
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84 Sep 4 Tu Minor European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 ("Developments in the European Community: January - June 1984") [White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 5 We Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("EP Budgets Committee: 5 September") [report on proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 7 Fr Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budget Council: 6/7 September 1984") [report on proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 7 Fr Major European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Community Expenditure on R & D and Euro-PES Arrangements") ["we must continue to attach the highest importance to controlling Community expenditure. But we also have to honour the commitments we have made on R&D over the past two years"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 10 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Education ("Council of Europe meeting of Ministers for Research") [proposal by Dr. Robin Nicholson to present idea for a 'European Royal Society' at the meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 10 Mo Major European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to MT ("Budget Council, 6/7 September") [report on proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 11 Tu Major European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("European Parliament and the UK Refunds") [latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 12 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Commission appointments; MT talks with FitzGerald; 1984 supplementary Budget/1985 draft Budget; UK rebates & budgetary discipline; EC enlargement negotiations; political cooperation: measures against terrorism & abuse of diplomatic immunity; North Sea fishing quotas] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 13 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Community: German attitudes") [Ambassador Bullard's initial impressions following first talks with key figures in West German government] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 13 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs: Statement by Kohl in Bundestag") ["Mitterrand had intended the Committee to consist of... independent personalities... Some member states had however undermined this"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 13 Th Major European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("European Parliament and UK Refunds") [statement by Chairman of the Budget Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 14 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EC Budget") [UK has "leverage over the others at present and is using it to good advantage", but this will be lost once EC runs out of funds, "putting us back where we were pre-Fontainebleau: and we should again have to consider withholding"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mo Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17 September") ["Budgetary Issues. Progress Report": record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mo Major European Policy: Tebbit letter to Ridley ("Coastal Shipping in the Community") ["address cabotage as an urgently priority issue... I am sure you will be very wary of allowing the Commission to extend competence into international shipping"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["EC Budget": "outcome of the informal meeting of Finance Ministers... Guidelines for a Council Decision on Budgetary Discipline"; New Own Resources decision; Foreign Affairs Council; Supplementary Budget for 1984; UK 1984 refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mo Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Informal ECOFIN on 15-16 September: Budgetary Discipline") [summary report; tactics for upcoming Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 18 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EC Budget") [latest position on negotiations following Howe attendance at Foreign Affairs Council; attached record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 19 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Budget discussions; EC enlargement/trade issues; milk quotas; reform of wine regime; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 20 Th Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("E.P Budgets Committee 18 and 19 September 1984: New Own Resources") ["likely to propose retention of the 1970 Own Resources decision... U.K compensation may be included... but duration likely to be limited"; MT: "Then we do not agree"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 20 Th Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("High Level Group on Budget Discipline: 20 September") [record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]