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PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 815 to FCO (2159Z) ("Special Committee for Agriculture: 4-6 March 1985 Price Proposals General Reactions") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 195 to FCO (1830Z) ("EC Financing") [risk of diplomatic rift over UK abatement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with PM of Belgium; EC enlargement; EC Budget: 1985, own resources decision, UK ECU abatement; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 913 to FCO (1925Z) ("Commission Programme for 1985") [analysis of key proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit minute to Howe ("Co-operation with the Dutch on the Internal Market") ["we should not pursue... to the point where it prejudices efforts to form a common position with other, perhaps less tractable, Member States"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC enlargement; EC Budget: 1985 overrun, Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, own resources decision, UK ECU abatement; Environmental Impact Assessment Directive; vehicle emissions; 1985-89 expenditure on financing of agricultural structures; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 209 to FCO (1130Z) ("IMPS") [Integrated Mediterranean Programmes: "non-tilting of structural funds towards the Mediterranean"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community Budget 1985, the Revised Own Resources Decision and the United Kingdom's 1000 Million ECU Abatement") [summary of "the state of the various proposals for establishing a 1985 Community budget"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Spain/Portugal entry to EC: negotiations; Dooge Committee report to European Council; vehicle emissions; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [vehicle emissions; entry to EC: negotiations with Spain/Portugal; EC Budget: own resources decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Tom King ("European Social Fund: Part-Time Work Subsidies") [legal challenge to EC decision to limit funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17-21 March") [EC enlargement/fisheries sector negotiations with Spain; EC Budget: own resources decision; 1985 Budget overrun; Intergovernmental Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Payment of Supplementary Benefit to EC Nationals") [options for excluding so-called "spaghetti scroungers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Spain/Portugal accession to EC; EC Budget - own resources decision; amendments to the steel aids code; agriculture: price-fixing proposals; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 291 to FCO (1835Z) ("European Union: German Views") [Horst Teltschik speech in Bonn on future of the EC; "British attitudes evolving. ... Prospects for progress not too bad. Unaniminity important but the slowest ship should not hold up the convoy"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Community Budget") [inter-governmental agreement to finance 1985 overrun & establish 1985 Budget: draft telegram to UKE Bonn urging no W. German interference in European Council ratification of own resources decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Development of the European Community") [analysis of French & W. German thinking; draft agreement on political cooperation; UK objectives for internal market; EC decision-taking procedure; role of the European Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Development of the European Community") [MT, Lawson, Tebbit & Havers responses to Howe's proposed guidelines for handling of discussions on future of the EC, in run-up to European Council in June] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [summary of successful UK negotiations of terms of entry for Spain/Portugal to EC; revised Own Resources Decision/abatement of UK payments to EC; Integrated Mediterranean Programmes; reducing burden of EC legislation on small business; Citizens' Europe & Dooge Committee reports; IMF role in policing individual countries' economic policies; encouragement of official use of ECU; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute ("Draft Agreement on Political Cooperation") [present state of text, with annotations by Powell] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Ian Stewart ("Budget Council") [request for an additional 2.3 billion ecu for 1985 Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("23 April Budget Council") [report: agricultural spending; Intergovernmental Agreement for supplementary finance for 1985 EC Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Cutting the Burden of Community Legislation on Business and Enterprise") [interim report on action in hand to follow up MT's initiative at the European Council on De-regulation; MT asks to be kept informed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [French proposal for European Research Coordination Agency; financing of 1985 EC Budget overrun; farm prices for 85-86; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram 068 to FCO (0705Z) ("Budget Council: 23 April 1985") [record of conversation on 1985 Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General's Legal Secretary letter to FCO ("Development of the EC") [Attorney-General considers he should see draft text on political cooperation before it is put to other states; case for putting "Luxembourg Compromise" into treaty form] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Political Cooperation") [draft agreement for MT to give privately to Kohl at Chequers; MT approves, with amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Biffen (UK contribution to EC Budget) [means of securing Parliament's agreement to Own Resources Decision for abatement of net UK contribution, and to Inter-Governmental Agreement to finance EC 1985 Budget overrun] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Howe PS ("Development of the EC") [Tebbit's thoughts on Howe minute of 15 April: need for pragmatic UK proposals; relations with European Parliament/political cooperation; decision-taking] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Own Resources Decision; 1985 EC draft Budget; agreement on farm prices for 1985-86; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Development of the European Community") [Lawson's thoughts on Howe minute of 15 April: internal market; decision-taking/unanimity rule; European Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Howe (draft EC directive on product liability) [proposal for giving ground in order to reach an EC consensus on the draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community Budget for 1985") [line to take on EC proposal to convert UK 1984 abatement to direct payments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Bonn Economic Summit, 2-4 May; Agriculture Council, 2-5 May; EC common market: standards initiative/checks at airports; EC draft 1985 Budget; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Biffen ("Parliamentary Handling of the Own Resources Decision and the Inter-Governmental Agreement") [timing of legislation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1711 to FCO (1700Z) ("Deregulation") [update on progress & content of EC Commission report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 398 to FCO (1635Z) ("Mitterrand and European Union") [report on briefing to French media] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Tom King ("Sex Discrimination Act: European Court Ruling") ["we should continue to voice our concern... for very small firms... [but] avoid creating the impression that we are using deregulation as a means simply to block Community measures we dislike"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Howe ("EUREKA") ["if we are not to be swept along we need to take an effective initiative ourselves"; proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Biffen minute to Howe ("Parliamentary Handling of the Own Resources Decision and the Inter-Governmental Agreement") [MT anxious about delay in passage of the Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [UK abatement for 1984; W. German intransigence over farm price settlement for 1985-86; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("The Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation in the European Community: our VAT Threshold") [outline of proposed action, to follow up MT suggestion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Cutting the Burden of Community Legislation on Business and Enterprise") [update report, in response to MT request "to be kept closely in touch with the action we are taking to follow up the initiative on deregulation which she launched at the European Council"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Robin Nicholson minute to Howe ("Eureka/Eurotype") [proposal for a warrant for high technology goods: draft letter for Howe to send to Dumas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) [development of the EC; Strategic Defence Initiative; USSR internal problems; European Fighter Aircraft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Development of the Community: Follow-Up to the Prime Minister's Meeting with Chancellor Kohl") [David Williamson, Ruhfus: draft agreement on political & technological cooperation; common market; majority voting & financial veto; UK membership of ERM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Agriculture Council, 13-16 May; development of the EC; MT meeting with Kohl; Budget Council, 22 May; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Delors, Lamy, Michael Butler, Robin Renwick, David Williamson) ["Approach to the Milan European Council"] [declassified Dec 2014]
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