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PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("EUREKA") [terms of reference, objectives, public sector funding; advisory role of business & consumers; Foreign Ministers Council, Stresa; Secretariat costs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; Howe bilateral meetings on development of the EC/intergovernmental conference/UK objectives; European Court verdict on EC common transport policy; Agriculture Council, 27-29 May; Research Council, 4 June; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 2184 to FCO (1415Z) ("Internal Market: Commission White Paper") [analysis of draft paper by Lord Cockfield] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation in the European Community: Our VAT Threshold") ["best to go for agreement to the principle of amending the VAT directive to secure a higher limit before proposing a figure, especially one as hight as [your suggested] £50,000"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Development of the Community: Prime Minister's Questions") [lines to take; report on Foreign Ministers Council, Stresa] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Robin Nicholson ("United Kingdom Response to Eureka: Eurotype") ["I am content for the idea of Eurotype now to be floated in informal discussions... subject to a number of conditions and observations"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [proposed intergovernmental conference on progress towards European Union; freedom of establishment for architects; vehicle emissions; Finance Council, 11 June; 1985/1986 EC Budgets/UK VAT contribution; Agriculture Council, 11-12 June; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [preparation for Milan European Council; EC/Japan; White Paper on completion of common market; EC (Finance) Bill: Own Resources Decision/UK VAT contribution; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Integrated Mediterranean Programmes; EC (Finance) Bill: Own Resources Decision/UK VAT contribution; prices for cereals and rapeseed; Energy Council, 20 June; Transport Council, 24 June; overseas development; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 2448 to FCO (1110Z) ("Follow up to European Council: Institutional Questions") [Michael Butler, Weyland record of conversation: "Luxembourgers... concerned to minimise the scope for disagreement and friction at the InterGovernmental Conference"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [European Council in Milan, 28-29 June; EC (Finance) Bill; Environment Council, 26-28 June: vehicle emissions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 575 to FCO (1513Z) ("Follow-Up to Milan European Council") [Fretwell, Lalumière: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 692 to FCO (1530Z) ("Milan European Council: Further German Press Reactions") ["HMG's irritation with Germany made the headlines at the beginning of the week, to be replaced with more measured articles about our reasonable approach"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to Norman Tebbit ("EEC Product Liability Directive") [food industry request for exemption for processed foodstuffs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [ECOFIN Council, 8 July: reference framework for 1986 EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 598 to FCO (1655Z) ("European Security and Anglo-French Relations") [Kohl/Mitterrand talks; "Need for care in presenting British policy to Europeans on related Alliance issue[s] such as UK participation in US SDI research"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Craxi letter to MT (European action to combat cancer) ["an initiative that could stand to symbolize... the joint efforts of the Community in the fields of advanced research"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Permanent Representative to the EC) [apppointment of David Hannay; request for meeting with MT to discuss InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind PS letter to all Government Ministers PS's ("Future Development of the Community") ["I attach a short note of HMG's line... in the aftermath of the Milan European Council"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (EUREKA) [European Council meeting on 17 July; public vs private finance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Amendments to the Treaty of Rome") [backbenchers perceive Howe/MT rift; Powell asks MT to soften her opposition to amendments: "We do not want to go into an intergovernmental conference with our hands completely tied"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [European technological cooperation/EUREKA; Agriculture Council, 15-16 July; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; integrated Mediterranean programmes; EC draft 1986 Budget; US/EC steel trade; realignment of European currencies ] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi (European Action Programme Against Cancer) ["scope for a concerted approach"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lamont letter to Howe ("EC Regional Aid Ceilings") ["unjustifiable differential between the ceilings in GB and those obtaining in other Member States... we could maintain that Northern Ireland was a special case"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards PS letter to Howe PS (European Parliament examination of the impact of 'steel crisis' in South Wales) [Edwards invited to give evidence to Committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("European Community, InterGovernmental Conference: Discussions with M. Santer and M. Dondelinger, 30 August 1985") [Jacques Santer, David Williamson, Robin Renwick, Dondelinger: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Proposed United Kingdom Action Against the Commission in the European Court of Justice") [annual premium for sheep; MT "delighted" with shift to "more aggressive policy" with regard to EC Commission/European Court] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [first meeting of the InterGovernmental Conference, 9 Sep; Budget Council, 17-18 Sep; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Gow minute to MT ("Community Budget for 1986: Budget Council, 17-18 September 1985") ["This minute outlines the approach which I propose to take"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards PS letter to Howe PS ("10th Anniversary of Community Regional Policy and the European Regional Development Fund") [Edwards declines invitation to attend] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Inter-Governmental Conference") [report on first meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Ian Gow ("Community Budget for 1986: Budget Council 17-18 September 1985") [EC enlargement and the cost of the past; staffing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Hurd ("European Community Migration Policy") [supports Hurd proposal to take EC Commission to European Court] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Gow minute to MT ("Budget Council, 17-18 September 1985") [report; "Looking ahead to next year, the prospects are even gloomier"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Gow PS letter to No.10 ("1985 Community Budget White Paper") [UK net budgetary contribution] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Gow letter to Lord Young ("1986 Community Budget: European Social Fund") ["I realise that restraint in Social Fund appropriations will be unwelcome to public sector beneficiaries in this country... After [EC] enlargement, the... [UK's] position as a net recipient from the Fund will be eroded rapidly"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Gow PS letter to No.10 ("1985 Community Budget White Paper") [advance copy of Statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram 110 to UKE Luxembourg (1125Z) ("Foreign Secretary's Speech in Bonn, 3 October, Europe - Our Future") [key passages] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC enlargement/trade; EC/US trade; InterGovernmental Conference; ECOFIN, 20-21 Sep; EC 1985 Budget White Paper; Common Agricultural Policy; Fisheries Council, 27 Sep; employment: EC deregulation; Equal Treatment Directive] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3270 to FCO (2015Z) ("Preparatory Group for IGC: Brussels 7/8 October") ["death of a thousand cuts on most... proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (European Regional Development Fund: non-quota measures) [line to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; EC policy towards Japan; EC en largement/trade; Internal Market Council, 7 Oct; 1986 EC draft Budget/UK VAT abatement; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Community: InterGovernmental Conference") [meeting with Michael Butler: key issues; negotiating tactics] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3550 to FCO (1225Z) ("Call on President of the Commission: 28 October 1985") [Hannay, Delors: record of conversation: InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Butler) ["European Community Inter-Governmental Conference": "progress (or lack of it)"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; Foreign Affairs Council, 22 Oct, incl. tariff reductions & trade relations with Japan and US; EC steel market/British Steel; ECOFIN Council, 28 Oct; Agriculture Council, 21-22 Oct; other recent & upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [Charles Powell: "I am alarmed by the number of Treaty amendments which appear to be envisaged"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Geoffrey Pattie ("EUREKA Progress and Prospects") [opposes idea of a dedicated Secretariat] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram 366 to UKRep Brussels (1300Z) ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [informal report on outcome of Franco-German summit, 7-8 Nov] [released Dec 2014]

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).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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