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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1031
European policy (Enlargement of European Community (EC): accession of Greece; pre-accession aid to Portugal; Spanish accession; EC attitude to Turkey) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 168
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80 Mar 19 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community affairs") [Budget; EMS; Turkish application for membership; German challenge to UK restraints on US synthetic textiles imports] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 23 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community affairs") [Fisheries Council; Agriculture Council; Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Sep 17 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community Affairs") [pre-accession aid for Portugal; Zimbabwe accession to Lome Convention; talks with France on fisheries exclusion zone & New Zealand butter imports ] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 22 Tu Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Carrington ("Enlargement") ["if, as I believe, UK interests would be likely to suffer from the accession of Spain and Portugal, then we should surely be ready to exploit opportunities for delay"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 13 Sa Major European Policy: Gaston Thorn letter to MT ("Enlargement of the Community") [MT at odds with Thorn on what he views as underlying fundamental problems relating to EC Budget funds and decision-making process] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 Jun 7 Th Major European Policy: Gilmour letter to St John-Stevas ("Greek Treaty of Accession to the EEC") ["We now have to consider how to make the changes in UK law necessary so that the UK can ratify this treaty"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Oct 23 Th Major European Policy: Gilmour PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: Greek attendance at the European Council") ["grateful for the Prime Minister's opinion so that we can give our view without hesitation. There is no clear precedent"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 18 Fr Major European Policy: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Community pre-Accession aid to Portugal") ["politically unrealistic to suppose that we can in fact block any concessional aid... and I think it is not reasonable to argue that our share of this is a proper charge to the aid programme"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Dec 29 Mo Major European Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Greek accession to the EC") [MT statement for Greek television, to mark the occasion: "I believe that Greek membership will contribute to freedom and peace, European unity and social and econnomic progress to the advantage of all"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 2 Tu Major European Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Spain") ["Completion of Spain's post-Accession transitional arrangements is some ten years away, but real problems of inequity face us now"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Aug 5 Th Major European Policy: MT letter to Gaston Thorn (enlargement of the EC: problems posed for the UK) [subsidiary issues relating to Spanish & Portugese accession; MT requests redraft to emphasise UK concerns] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 May 18 Fr Major European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis ("Signature of Greek Accession Treaty") [UK representation at the ceremony] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 Jul 12 Th Major European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis (accession of Greece to the EC) [congratulations] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 25 Fr Major European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Sa Carneiro letter (Pre-accession aid for Portugal) ["a difficult decision for us... Our exisiting aid programme... is under considerable pressure"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jun 20 Fr Major European Policy: MT letter to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP (costs of Greek, Spanish and Portugese accession to the EEC) [reply addressing various points of concern] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Sep 23 Tu Major European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister Sa Carneiro (pre-EC accession aid to Portugal) ["I share your anxiety to achieve a positive outcome"; Carneiro: "it would be a distressing situation if Portugal's oldest ally was to prevent a positive decision"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Sep 11 Th Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Pre-accession aid for Portugal") ["Our problem is over the UK share of the concessionary aid element"] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 Oct 24 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Karamanlis, Julian Bullard, Stavros Roussos & others) ["Bilateral relations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 19 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington, Freitas do Amaral, Almeida Mendes, Julian Bullard, Lord Moran, Freitas Cruz & others) ["Portugese accession to the European Community"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Sep 12 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sa Carneiro) [pre-EC accession aid to Portugal; Carneiro: "grave concern... it would be a distressing situation if Portugal's oldest ally was to prevent a positive decision"] [declassified Aug 2013]