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PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Prospects for the Irish Presidency") [EC enlargement; finance for Budget overrun in 1984; Common Agricultural Policy; removal of barriers to trade; Lome negotiations; European unity and institutional reform; Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("1982 Risk-Sharing Refund: TCSC Enquiry") [line to take for Economic Secretary's appearance before Treasury & Civil Service Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Work of the Commission on Industrial Policy") ["hidden barriers to a genuine common market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (European Community budget negotiations) [response to MT query] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Industrial Standards and Removing Barriers to Collaboration between Enterprises") [interim response, pending revised report from officials, in response to MT request for an initiative] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [European Development Fund; unleaded petrol; priorities for EC research & development; EC Commission proposal for revised Own Resources Decision] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Council meeting at Fontainebleau: Conclusions of the Presidency") [response to query from Treasury regarding the form and status of the Conclusions as placed in the library of the House of Commons] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Implementation of Fontainebleau Agreement: Revised Own Resources Decision") ["In all important respects it matches what... [MT] said in presenting the agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN 9 July 1984. Budgetary Discipline") [record of conversation: Lawson, Delors, Tugendhat, Ortoli, Dukes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN 9 July 1984. Second Quarterly Economic Review") [record of conversation: Doyle, Ortoli, Delors, Tietmeyer, Riberholdt, Dukes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Budget Overruns in 1984 and 1985") ["Council of Ministers (Budget) on 18-19 July... It is clear... that... action by the Council to respect the Community's legal obligations is necessary"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Budget Council 18/19 July") ["will have to consider some difficult issues on the 1984 and 1985 Budgets and on the financing of our 1000 mecu 1984 refund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (European Community: ad hoc Committees on Institutional Questions and on a People's Europe) [terms of reference; membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Parliamentary debate on outcome of European Council; draft Spinelli Treaty on European Union; EC budget discipline; UK 1983 refund; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Gaston Thorn letter to MT (EC 1984 Supplementary Budget) ["unless the Commission's proposals... are adopted it will have... to suspend agricultural payments to the Member States. This would have serious implications for the budget year 1985"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: United Kingdom refund for 1983 of 750 million ECU (about £440 million net)") ["money should be received... shortly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community: Supplementary Budget for 1984 and Preliminary Draft Budget for 1985") ["necessary to decide what line the... [UK] should take in the Council of Ministers (Budget) on 18-19 July"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Jopling, Ian Stewart, Michael Butler, David Williamson) ["European Community Budget"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Timetable for a Referendum") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budget Council: Bilateral with the Germans") [Ian Stewart, Tietmeyer: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Gaston Thorn ("1984 and 1985 Budgets") ["If the Budget Council concludes that, when the full scope for savings has been exhausted, there is still a potential problem, then we are willing to consider [it]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Community Expenditure on R and D") ["It is important that our attitude... should be consistent with... commitments [made]... Budgetary discipline must remain the principal objective... [whilst ensuring] that there is a shift of resources away from agriculture and towards policies... likely to benefit the [UK]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [next President of EC Commission; appointment of Fabius as French PM; supplementary budget for 1984/draft budget for 1985; EC Commission Secretary General post; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 Refunds") ["Commission will not have sufficient cash available to pay the refunds"; request for advance & overdraft facility from EC member states: "a necessary step towards securing payment of our refunds"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Taoiseach FitzGerald ("European Community: Ad Hoc Committees on Institutional Questions and on a People's Europe") [composition & terms of reference; MT opposes FitzGerald proposal for terms of reference to include consideration of extending the competence of the Community] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Howe ("Budget Council, 18, 19 & 20 July") ["Foreign Affairs Council will be discussing the 1984 Supplementary Budget and the 1985 Preliminary Draft Budget... following the deadlock today... a quick report on how the Budget Council went"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to EEC Prime Ministers (European Community: Ad Hoc Committees on Institutional Questions and on a People's Europe) ["I am asking the Minister for Foreign Affairs to have discussions with his colleagues"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 Refunds") ["I agree with the course of action you propose... while payment of our refunds is not in doubt, there is still scope for the Parliament, the Commission and Member States to drag their feet"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("1984 Budget and 1983 Refunds") [report on meeting of European Parliament's interim Budget committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: 1984/85 Overrun") [Howe report on General Affairs Council meeting; next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Community Budget: 1984/85 overruns") ["We are concerned at the way in which the Irish Government is approaching the problem"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC 1984 supplementary budget/1985 preliminary draft budget; EC enlargement; disposals of surplus products by export; UK's 1983 EC refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation ("European Parliament: 1983 Refunds") [Charles Powell, Jurgen Ruhfus: "move... afoot to block payment... led by the German Christian Democrats... [MT] wanted... Kohl to know personally that... [she] would regard this as a breach of the agreement reached at Fontainebleau"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("1983 Refunds") [Lawson "considers that... [in light of decision] to block our 1983 refunds... it would be a mistake to announce our intention [to provide an advance of own resources]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("1983 Refunds") [legal advice, in advance of MT interview on 'Newsnight', regarding European Parliament blockage of refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Community Expenditure on R and D and Euro-Pes Arrangements") ["grateful for your recognition of the importance of the PESC(EC) arrangements... therefore concerned to read your proposals for amending [them]... More generally, I am very concerned about where we are going on R and D"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("1983 Refunds: German press reactions") ["critical of our refusal to make more funds available in 1984 to finance the EC budget overrun, but regards the Parliament's action in blocking our refund as regrettably provocative"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chairman of the European Democratic Group letter to MT (European Parliament's block on UK and German Refunds for 1983) ["most unlikely to agree to release... rebates for 1983 unless a supplementary budget for 1984 is agreed beforehand"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (EC Budget negotiations: request from the Taoiseach for a meeting with MT) [timing] [declassified Jan 2014]
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