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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1222
European policy (European Council meeting, Fontainebleau (Paris), June 1984) (Part 18)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 233

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Date Value Title
83 Jul 8 Fr Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French Presidency: January-June 1984: European Council Dates") [proposed dates for MT's agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 6 We Major European Policy: FCO minute (internal): European Community Department to Renwick PS ("EC Heads of Mission Conference, 5 June 1984") ["main points which emerged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mo Major European Policy: Overseas Development Administration minute to FCO: European Community Department ("European Council Preparations: Budgetary Imbalances") [summary of conversations with EC colleagues during London Economic Summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparation for European Council") ["Presidency announced long list of possible subjects for discussion"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 13 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Preparation for European Council of 25-26 June") [negotiations; Budget inequity; UK refunds; Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 13 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Preparation for European Council") ["You have found it useful in the past to have a teach-in with a very limited number of officials before the normal briefing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 14 Th Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Council: the German Problem") ["how to get... Kohl to be more active and more helpful over our Budget problem"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major European Policy: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation ("Foreign Affairs Council Luxembourg 18 June") ["Preparation for European Council": themes for discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparation for European Council: Budgetary Imbalances") [French proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Council") [report on position to be taken by Netherlands on post-Stuttgart negotiations at Fontainebleau] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council: French approach") ["Various, apparently uncoordinated, ideas for settling the Budget imbalances issue are in circulation. The scene changes from day to day and as usual there is no firm indication of Mitterrand's preferences"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Preparation for the European Council") ["Meeting of Ministers... to agree the line for Fontainebleau on the UK Budget problem"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major European Policy: President Mitterrand letter to MT (Preparation for the European Council) [budgetary imbalances; other key issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Report of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Fontainebleau Summit") [request to circulate; summary of main points] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Th Major European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The European Council") ["Lubbers and Mitterrand... discussed a Presidency suggestion for a UK refund based on a flat rate of compensation in place of the system"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EC Council at Fontainebleau: the German approach") ["Pressures and incentives for Kohl to settle, but not at any price. Irritation over UK "intransigence" not a decisive factor"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Th Minor European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Committee Report on the forthcoming Fontainebleau Summit") ["on the whole helpful... brings out very clearly... the question of budgetary imbalances"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Th Major European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: Budget Imbalances") [key points of French proposal, for MT phone call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Howe ("European Council, 25-26 June") [outline of anticipated agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, Fontainebleau, 25-26 June") [MT speaking notes] [declassified Jan 2014]