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1984 Nov 1 - 1985 Feb 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1478
European Policy (European Community Budget: developments in the European Community; Dooge Committee on European Community institutions) (Part 28)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 424
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84 Nov 7 We Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1045 to FCO (1330Z) ("Anglo-German Relations") [Bullard, Teltschik: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 7 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; EC Budget discipline; Research Council, 6 Nov; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3645 to FCO (1902Z) ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee) 7/8 November 1984") ["Nature of Report to European Council": record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Committee on People's Europe") [report on first meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 9 Fr Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1065 to FCO (1700Z) ("Britain, Germany and the EC") [Bullard, Ungerer: record of conversation: internal market; European Treat covering political cooperation and security] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 12 Mo Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3692 to FCO (1856Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council: 12 November 1984") ["Budget Discipline": record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 12 Mo Major European Policy: FCO telegram 513 to UKRep Brussels (1717Z) ("1985 Draft Budget and UK Abatements for 1984") [record of conversation: Howe, Ian Stewart, members of the European Democratic Group] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 12 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Budgetary Issues in the European Parliament") [revised Decision on Own Resources; EC Budget discipline; 1985 Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 13 Tu Major European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("ECOFIN Council, 12 November: Budgetary Discipline") [final version of text outlining the Council's position; draft PQ reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 14 We Major European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 764 to FCO (0800Z) ("Citizens Europe Committee") [Gallo's candidacy] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 14 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC enlargement negotiations; fisheries; European Development Fund for ACP countries in the Third Lome Convention; EC budgetary discipline; 1985 draft EC budget; budget discharge for 1982; milk super-levy; vehicle weights, Energy Council, 13 Nov; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Major European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("The Dooge Committee") [interim report to European Council; Powell highlights two issues: formalisation of existing commitments in POCO; case-by-case look at possible extension of majority voting; MT comments extensively on report & on paper by Ruhfus on political cooperation ] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Major European Policy: Rifkind PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Topical Points on European Community Matters") [comprehensive briefing pack for Ministers, backbenchers and MEPs] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 19 Mo Major European Policy: President of the EC Commission letter to MT (economic priorities for Western Europe) [copy of speech: "are the Europeans sufficiently robust economically to maintain their expenditures on defence and, if possible, to increase them to levels more acceptable to the United States?"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 21 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with FitzGerald and Soares; European Development Fund for ACP countries in the Third Lome Convention; EC enlargement: negotiations with Spain; European Council text on budgetary discipline; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 22 Th Major European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("Budgetary Discipline") [members of ECOFIN Council, European Parliament delegation: record of discussion about text agreed by Finance Ministers; "Parliament delegation, as expected, strongly criticised the text"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3923 to FCO (1715Z) ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee)") [report on Rifkind's participation in drafting of interim report to Council of Europe] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 784 to FCO (0800Z) ("The Italian Presidency") [likely priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3923 to FCO (1715Z) ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee): 21-23 November") [record of discussion: interim report to European Council: majority in favour of highlighting need for an intergovernmental conference to negotiate a Treaty on European Union; Rifkind dissents] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mo Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3944 to FCO (1745Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 26 November 1984") ["Dooge Committee": record of conversation: Howe emphasises need for consensus] [declassified Dec 2014]