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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1219
European policy (Presidency of European Commission; UK Commissioners; official posts in Commission; European Secretariat in Cabinet Office) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 287
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81 Jan 12 Mo Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Commission Portfolios: Prime Ministers conversation with Thorn") [MT intercession with Gaston Thorn over perceived downgrading of the role/responsibilities of Tugendhat as Budget Commissioner] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 8 Th Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Commission Portfolios") ["Thorn... clearly tried yesterday to pull a fast one on Tugendhat... O'Kennedy is widely felt to have come out of the discussion very badly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 23 Tu Major European Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Reappointment of M. Thorn") ["recommend that we should agree... despite his undoubted shortcomings"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Nov 3 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Roy Jenkins) [EMS; European Commission portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Sep 19 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Raymond Barre) ["Commission portfolios"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Nov 21 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Giscard d'Estaing) [European Commission portfolios & Europe butter stockpile/New Zealand imports] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Sep 16 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jopling) ["European Commissioners"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 7 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gaston Thorn) [curtailment of Commissioner's budget responsibility; MT: "would be seen as a deliberate insult to Britain... [and] would have grievous consequences for the whole relationship of Britain with the Community"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Oct 27 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gaston Thorn) [Commission portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jun 12 Th Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Schmidt) [Presidency of the Commission; EC procedures; restructuring of EC Budget] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 25 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Whitelaw, Jopling) ["European Commissioners": Labour Party candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Sep 30 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Gilmour, Jopling) ["European Commissioners"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jun 12 Th Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Cossiga, Colombo) [Presidency of the Commission; Middle East] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 2 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Callaghan) ["European Commissioners": portfolios; Labour Party candidates; federalism] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 21 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Callaghan) ["European Commissioners": Labour Party candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Aug 8 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 note to MT (Italian Presidency of the European Community) [despatch from Sir Ronald Arculus] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 9 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 letter to Taoiseach Haughey PS ("Commission Portfolios: message to Mr. Haughey") [informal message from MT to Haughey regarding clash between UK/Irish Commissioners following her intercession with Thorn over downgrading of UK Commissioner's role] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Oct 23 Th Major European Policy: MT letter to Christopher Tugendhat (reappointment to the European Commission) ["delighted... get in touch with my Office whenever you think a meeting might be useful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Jan 14 We Major European Policy: MT letter to Christopher Tugendhat (allocation of Commission portfolios) [acknowledges letter of thanks for her intercession with Gaston Thorn] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Sep 16 Tu Major European Policy: MT letter to Callaghan (European Commissioners) [Labour Party candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]