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1984 Mar 1 - 1984 Mar 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1227
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 23B)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 188
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84 Feb 29 We Major 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]
84 Mar 1 Th Major 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]
84 Mar 2 Fr Major 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]
84 Mar 2 Fr Major 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]
84 Mar 3 Sa Major 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]
84 Mar 5 Mo Major 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]
84 Mar 5 Mo Major 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]
84 Mar 6 Tu Major 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]
84 Mar 7 We Major 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]
84 Mar 7 We Major 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]
84 Mar 8 Th Major 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]
84 Mar 9 Fr Major 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]
84 Mar 9 Fr Major 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]
84 Mar 11 Su Major 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]
84 Mar 13 Tu Major 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]
84 Mar 13 Tu Major 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]
84 Mar 14 We Major 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]
84 Mar 14 We Major 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]
84 Mar 14 We Major 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]
84 Mar 15 Th Major 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]