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1983 Jul 8 - 1984 Jul 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 233
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84 Jul 3 Tue European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau: Public Expenditure Implications") [lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 2 Mon European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Post-Fontainebleau issues and Enlargement") [Timms, Legras: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 28 Thu European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French reactions") ["Increasing recognition that British demands were reasonable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 28 Thu European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau - German government statement and further press reaction") ["Federal Government... upbeat... Press comment by comparison less euphoric"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 28 Thu European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau") ["Colleagues may find it useful to have the attached note explaining the main features of the agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 27 Wed European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Follow-up to European Council") ["problems with texts published on the Presidency's own authority"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 27 Wed European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French press coverage") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 27 Wed European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau Summit: German media coverage") ["Outcome of Budget debate generally seen to be fair: a successful Summit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 27 Wed European Policy: No.10 note to Howe PS ("European Council, Prime Minister's Statement to the House") [latest draft with MT amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fri European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Howe ("European Council, 25-26 June") [outline of anticipated agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fri European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, Fontainebleau, 25-26 June") [MT speaking notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fri European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("European Council: preparation for the European Council") [David Williamson, Étienne Davignon: Budget imbalances] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fri European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Imperial Chemical Industries PLC ("The Fontainebleau European Council") [UK "to press hard for measures which will genuinely ensure the operation of the internal market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 21 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu 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 20 Wed European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparation for European Council: Budgetary Imbalances") [French proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 Wed 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 Wed 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]