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PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe meeting with Andreotti; 1984 draft EC budget; German paper on future financing & EC budget inequity; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post Stuttgart Negotiations: Meeting of Ministers, 9.30am 4 November") ["to review... [UK] negotiating situation for the Special Council on 9-12 November"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (European Council: post-Stuttgart negotiations) [appointment of senior official for bilateral contacts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 ("Meeting with Ian Stewart") [Economic Secretary: proposed meeting with MT to discuss European policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lamont, Ian Stewart, John MacGregor, Michael Butler, David Williamson, Robert Armstrong) ["European Community: post-Stuttgart negotiations": EC Budget inequity; agriculture; new policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Autumn Statement and Public Expenditure White Paper") [proposals/options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs: Commission Paper on Budgetary Imbalance") ["proposes a new method allocating expenditure in the Community budget... we reject this attempt to manipulate the figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["cynical and prejudicial proposal to redefine expenditure... in order to make... [UK] budgetary imbalance appear half its actual size"; Energy Council; Industry Council; Research Council/ESPRIT; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Community") [Jopling concerns about cost of EC enlargement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Athens European Council 5/6 Dec; EC budget inequity; milk quotas/levies, monetary compensatory amounts & other agricultural issues; 1982 risk-sharing refund; Agriculture Council; Jopling visit to US; Development Council; ESPRIT information technology programme; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Ingham to Coles ("European Community") [proposal for MT "to place clearly on record her approach to Athens... by means of an Oral Question"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Cabinet Office ("European Community: post-Stuttgart negotiations") [EC Budget: UK net contribution/levies & duties: options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community: post-Stuttgart regulations") [EC budget inequity; agricultural prices/levies/monetary compensatory amounts; completion of the common market; structural funds financing/ESPRIT information technology programme; UK 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Your Meeting on the EC Budget: Thursday 1 December") [attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC budget inequity; milk prices/levy; monetary compensatory amounts; new transport policies; EC enlargement; 1982 risk-sharing refund; steel volutary restraint agreements; Japanese export restraint package; steel prices; US/EC steel dispute; 1983 budget refunds; easing of EC internal trade barriers; Environment Council; Departmental coverage of EC expenditure programme costs; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Community Financing") [fact sheet requested by MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [report on European Council meeting 6/7 Dec; draft 1984 EC budget; 1983 UK refunds; Transport Council; upcoming Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Community: first reactions in French Government after Athens") ["I doubt whether Mitterrand ever really got to grips with the issues or that he has thought through the problem of dealing with them in the French Presidency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Henry Plumb) [EC Commission budget deficit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [draft budget for 1984/UK refunds; ESPRIT information technology programme; New Zealand butter imports; revisions to EC loan mechanism; hazardous consumer products; steel market stabilisation; fishing catch quotas; youth employment; Northern Ireland; upcoming Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public expenditure White Paper figures") ["we... agreed that I would consult you... about the figures, and relevant text"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [rollback of protectionism; 1984 EC Budget/1983 refunds; Energy Council; Transport Council; Steel Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("European Community: Transport issues") [update & proposed negotiating strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Henry Plumb (1984 EC Budget and 1983 British refunds) [action taken by the conservative European Democratic Group in the European Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (EC: 1982 risk-sharing refunds) ["a formal letter requesting... [EC] to remedy its failure to fulfil by 31 December 1983 its obligations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to MT (Athens European Council) [communication of UK concerns to Mitterrand about increased EC public expenditure and UK's 1983 refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public cxpenditure White Paper figures") [1983 refund; 1982 risk-sharing refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Post-Stuttgart Negotiations and the French") ["we do not know with certainty why the frequent ministerial and official level contacts in the weeks before the Athens European Council failed to give us any forewarning of the line the President was likely to take... we have to find a way of getting our views over to the French at the only level that matters - that of the President"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public expenditure White Paper figures") [1983 refund; 1982 'risk-sharing' refund; E(A) committee: how to avoid EC expenditure adding to public expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Transport issues") ["French... Germans... Italians are our traditional opponents... the Dutch, like us, attach prime importance to a dynamic Common Transport Policy... colleagues should do what they can to support... Ridley's efforts in their bilateral contacts between now and [European Council in] March"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prior letter to Howe (European Manifesto) ["three areas of Community policy where there is a substantial Northern Ireland interest: regional affairs; agriculture; and the role of the European Parliament"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("EEC - "Withholding"") ["I feel very strongly... that in relation to the balance of the 1982 refund... the correct procedure is set off, not withholding... the 1983 refund... should be dealt with in the same way"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC negotiations leading up to March European Council; EC Budget: 1983 refunds/1982 risk-sharing refund; agriculture: 1984/85 price proposals; Steel Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversations ("Visit to Brussels: 9/10 January") [Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration: meetings with French & Italian Permanent Representatives and with Vice-President Davignon] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Public Expenditure White Paper figures") ["I accept your argument that the White Paper should... assume that we will receive 90% of our budget refund for 1983 by the end of March. I continue to think, however, that the disputed balance of our 1982 risk-sharing refund should be treated differently"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [French farmers: UK lorries blockade; US restrictions on steel imports; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations") [summary of UK objectives, for MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["Commission... ought to be able to pay up to 90 per cent of our refunds... and, indeed, the outstanding £42 million risk-sharing money, by the end of March. We shall watch the position closely"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["if we broke the link [in the White Paper, with 1983 refunds], we might well be asked whether the £42 million had in practice been written off"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (meeting with the Danish Minister of Agriculture) [Jopling, Kofoed; officials: pricing policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Institute of Fiscal Studies: Study on EC Budget") ["Our concern is... that the IFS figures can easily be misinterpreted by those opposed to the Government's negotiating strategy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [post-Stuttgart negotiations; EC enlargement; ESPRIT information technology programme; Jopling meeting with Danish counterpart; Anglo-Italian summit; Steel Council; Fisheries Council; French farmer protests] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UK position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [summary of UK position on main issues; MT: "very useful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl (EC negotiations) ["Mitterrand and I... at one on the urgent need to relaunch the Community... Unless decisive progress can be made at... [the March European Council] the disarray of the Community will get worse] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["unwise to assume... that the £42 million balance of our 1982 Risk Sharing funds will be paid by 31 March"; MT thinks proposed redraft "unduly defensive & rather weak"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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