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PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("European Community: French views on the post-Stuttgart negotiations") [Robert Armstrong, David Williamson, Jacques Attali, Bianco: control of spending; budget imbalance; own resources; agriculture; MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Paper on the Future of the European Community") [EC relations with the 'outside world': paper for Kohl] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Community Financing") [MT meeting with Mitterrand; EC budget imbalance; EC budgetary discipline; members states' own resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("French ideas for a European Council Secretariat") ["Mitterrand referred to the idea of having a special Secretariat"; MT: "I prefer each country to provide its own for the Presidency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: Prime Minister's meeting with Mitterrand, 5 March") ["French tactics for the Brussels European Council are emerging"; monetary compensation amounts; control of EC spending; limits on milk production; UK budgetary refund & link to new own resources ceiling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of President Mitterrand") [cover note for record of MT, Mitterrand conversation, not attached; MT request for paper on EC Budget to send to Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("1982 Risk-Sharing Refunds") [key points in response from EC Commission President Thorn; "the Commission were never likely to accept our case fully or seek to involve themselves directly... the choice is likely to be between our own readiness to drop the issue... and action in the Court or withholding"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 Refunds") [advance payment of member states' own resources & likely repercussions: "Notwithstanding [these]... the right course is for us to go playing strictly by the Community rules... We need not bind ourselves at this stage actually to pay the money over"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on EC issues") [EC Commission request for advance payment; issues for the European Council; letter to President Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet Office: Community Affairs") [negotiating situation for European Council; 1983 EC budget refunds; Energy Council: package of measures; advance transfer of members states' own resources to EC Commission; agriculture: 1984 price proposals; Environment Council & Consumer Affairs Council: outcomes; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Walker ("Refund Regulations: Energy Items") ["I have instructed our representative on the [Energy] Working Group to raise coal social measures... Only if... this approach cannot succeed, and... to persist in it would jeopardise our refunds, will we lift our reserve on coking coal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (imbalance in the European Community Budget) ["I promised to let you have a paper... designed to describe a lasting and systematic solution"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Community Cash position") ["At her meeting yesterday... [MT] asked about the balance on the Commission's account... Commission officials have... [assured us] that they will be able to find the necessary cash to pay out refunds before the end of March"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Jopling, Wakeham, Biffen, Robert Armstrong, Michael Butler, David Williamson, David Hannay & others) ["Preparation for the European Council: 19-20 March": advance payment from member states/UK's 1983 refund; fair sharing of EC budget burden; agricultural spending; monetary compensatory amounts; milk levy; butter subsidy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EEC Budget and Refunds") ["The technical points on our refunds have been disposed of... Only the French are holding out... [Howe] suggested that you might authorise... me to ring Attali... will have to be done within the next few minutes"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("EC Budget and Refunds") [Robert Armstrong, Jacques Attali; Armstrong: "even if the Council agreed the regulations today... There would be further opportunities... for the French Government to block the refunds"; both MT & Attali unfamiliar with this reasoning] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 refunds") ["we ought... to put ourselves in a position to make the advance on 30 March... But we need not commit ourselves to making the advance before we know where we stand on the refunds"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to Howe PS ("Interest on non-payment of advance of own resources in 1983") ["there is no obligation to make an advance under the own resource's regulation; and... we should make no concession until the Court rules otherwise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe report on EC negotiations: fair sharing of budget burden; Foreign Affairs Council: energy issues; common commerical policy regulation; UK 1983 EC budget refund; Agriculture Council: Jopling report on milk quotas agreement; monetary compensatory amounts; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council: French approach") ["essentially a contest with the UK over Budget refunds"; analysis of Mitterrand's probable strategy; "I am not sure that he has grasped even now the necessity for a... [genuinely] long-term settlement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Economic and Social Committee: Letter from M. Ceyrac to the Prime Minister") [text of reply addressing Ceyrac's concerns about future of the EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Withholding: use of suspense account") ["objections outweigh the possible advantages... we should continue to base our contingency plans [for non-payment of UK's 1983 refund] on the blocking of payments out of the EEC no.1 account"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Biffen PS ("EC Budget: contingency planning for withholding") ["against the possibility that we do not receive the bulk of our refunds for 1983 by the end of March... possible Parliamentary implications"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: duration of budgetary imbalance solution") [the views of Prime Minister Werner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Regional Aids") [text of message from EC Commission: request to "submit a notification giving full details of the proposed aid"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [Budget issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("European Community Strategy") [proposed message to Commission "On the assumption that the Cabinet decides tomorrow to block a transfer out of the Commission's bank account in London until our position is protected"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO (""Safeguarding our Position": timing of legislation") [advice on UK refund negotiations with EC: legislation as a last resort & lines to take for negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Brief for the Prime Minister for Cabinet, 22 March") [withholding of EC funds pending UK's 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["You will wish to give... your assessment of the European Council... [and] the continued blockage by France and Italy of the regulations implementing the... [UK] 1983 budget refund... [Howe] will also wish to comment... on the action which we might now take"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Chancellor Kohl's compromise proposal") [UK financial compensation from EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Payments of "own resources" to the Community") [lines to take for Parliament on UK withholding of special advance payment to EC in light of not receving refund for 1983] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Post European Council Negotiations: Budgetary Discipline") [comments on final Presidency draft text] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("My Call on Genscher") [record of conversation: EC issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Foreign Affairs Council") ["we should concentrate our efforts on Herr Genscher... [MT] should therefore not at this stage contact... Kohl directly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Foreign Affairs Council": Agriculture Council/agricultural package; UK refunds; sanctions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council 27 March 1984") ["Little or no discussion of subjects other than budgetary imbalances"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Capital Allowances: Transitional Arrangements for Certain Regional Projects") ["the Commission have informed us that they regard the arrangements as constituting regional aid... if we are to honour our commitment to Nissan... We have no alternative but to contest the Commission's interpretation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Foreign Affairs Council/Agriculture Council") [outcomes; Howe statement to Parliament: supplementary advance to Commission; UK refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budgetary Imbalances") [latest position; costs of EC enlargement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Fair Sharing of the Community Budget Burden") ["Council of Ministers (Foreign Affairs) did not reach agreement... [Howe] made no concessions... probably that we shall keep two concessions made by other member states"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC budget imbalance: Foreign Affairs Council; Agriculture Council; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budget Imbalance") [record of conversation with French EC Commission officials: latest position on negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ridley letter to Howe (Transport Council: shipping business) [draft resolution on unfair commercial practices: suggested amendment to French proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Advance of Community own resources") ["Commission's withdrawal, yesterday, of their request for an advance on 30 March... clearly confirms... there was no need for an advance today"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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