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1982 Oct 15 - 1983 Dec 8
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1025
European policy (European Council meeting, Athens, December 1983) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 181
Any docs withheld? 2

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83 Oct 6 Thu European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("The Italian view on the Greek Presidency") [Council of Europe, 4-6 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 15 Sat European Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Greek Presidency: July-December 1983: European Council dates") [5-6 December proposed] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 27 Thu European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Contacts with France and Germany on EC issues") [Council of Europe, 4-6 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 14 Mon European Policy: No.10 minute: Coles to Owen ("Confidential filing") [Policy Unit request for Council of Europe papers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 17 Thu European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's briefing for European Council") [attendees] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tue European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("Athens European Council: UK net contribution") ["...in light of the developments at the Special Council in Brussels yesterday, I should like to set down what I now believe our priorities and tactics should be..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 Wed European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Chirac) [prospects for Athens European Council, 4-6 Dec; EMS; economic convergence] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, 4-6 December: preparation of the United Kingdom position") [background for MT briefing meeting with Lawson, Howe, Jopling and Channon] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart negotiations: meeting of Ministers at 5.30pm on 1 December") ["This meeting is intended to... decide the [UK] line on certain major points for the European Council in Athens on 4-6 December"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Thu EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece (MT's views in advance of Athens European Council meeting: EC Budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Thu European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou ("European Council, 4-6 December") ["...I attach great importance to our making decisive progress on [this] occasion... my views on a few key points in advance of the meeting"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Thu European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jopling, Channon, Kenneth Baker, officials) [Athens European Council, 4-6 Dec] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Thu European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Community Aid") [European Council, 4-6 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri EC: Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece letter to MT (plans for Athens European Council meeting) [released 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to Flash FCO ("Cyprus: Guarantor power consultations") ["Clear implication that Papandreou is looking to us to pull his chestnuts our of the fire..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (bilaterals at European Council, 4/6 Dec) [proposed programme; No.10 warns of Italian sensitivities to France, Germany and Britain concerting their positions] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Athens European Council: the Greek memorandum") ["...the Prime Minister should seek to dress up the benefits which Greece is already getting from the Community and those which she will get as a result of the decision to postpone for two years the introduction of VAT"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: political items") [Middle East; Cyprus; East/West relations; Afghanistan; Latin & Central America] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Cyprus: meeting between Mrs Thatcher and the Prime Minister of Greece") ["There is very little prospect in the present climate of our being able to play a successful leading role either in resolving the present crisis, or in contributing to the longer-term search for a solution..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Council, 4-6 December: opening remarks by the Prime Minister") [plain talking on need for consensus, and EU Budget contributions] [declassified Aug 2013]