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1983 Nov 1 - 1984 Jan 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1225
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 22)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 291
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83 Nov 2 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe meeting with Andreotti; 1984 draft EC budget; German paper on future financing & EC budget inequity; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 2 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post Stuttgart Negotiations: Meeting of Ministers, 9.30am 4 November") ["to review... [UK] negotiating situation for the Special Council on 9-12 November"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 3 Thu European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (European Council: post-Stuttgart negotiations) [appointment of senior official for bilateral contacts] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 3 Thu European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 ("Meeting with Ian Stewart") [Economic Secretary: proposed meeting with MT to discuss European policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 4 Fri European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lamont, Ian Stewart, John MacGregor, Michael Butler, David Williamson, Robert Armstrong) ["European Community: post-Stuttgart negotiations": EC Budget inequity; agriculture; new policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 4 Fri European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Autumn Statement and Public Expenditure White Paper") [proposals/options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 9 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs: Commission Paper on Budgetary Imbalance") ["proposes a new method allocating expenditure in the Community budget... we reject this attempt to manipulate the figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 9 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["cynical and prejudicial proposal to redefine expenditure... in order to make... [UK] budgetary imbalance appear half its actual size"; Energy Council; Industry Council; Research Council/ESPRIT; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 16 Wed European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Community") [Jopling concerns about cost of EC enlargement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 16 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Athens European Council 5/6 Dec; EC budget inequity; milk quotas/levies, monetary compensatory amounts & other agricultural issues; 1982 risk-sharing refund; Agriculture Council; Jopling visit to US; Development Council; ESPRIT information technology programme; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 18 Fri European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Ingham to Coles ("European Community") [proposal for MT "to place clearly on record her approach to Athens... by means of an Oral Question"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 23 Wed European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Cabinet Office ("European Community: post-Stuttgart negotiations") [EC Budget: UK net contribution/levies & duties: options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 28 Mon European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community: post-Stuttgart regulations") [EC budget inequity; agricultural prices/levies/monetary compensatory amounts; completion of the common market; structural funds financing/ESPRIT information technology programme; UK 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 Wed European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Your Meeting on the EC Budget: Thursday 1 December") [attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC budget inequity; milk prices/levy; monetary compensatory amounts; new transport policies; EC enlargement; 1982 risk-sharing refund; steel volutary restraint agreements; Japanese export restraint package; steel prices; US/EC steel dispute; 1983 budget refunds; easing of EC internal trade barriers; Environment Council; Departmental coverage of EC expenditure programme costs; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fri European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Community Financing") [fact sheet requested by MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [report on European Council meeting 6/7 Dec; draft 1984 EC budget; 1983 UK refunds; Transport Council; upcoming Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Thu European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Community: first reactions in French Government after Athens") ["I doubt whether Mitterrand ever really got to grips with the issues or that he has thought through the problem of dealing with them in the French Presidency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 10 Sat European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Henry Plumb) [EC Commission budget deficit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [draft budget for 1984/UK refunds; ESPRIT information technology programme; New Zealand butter imports; revisions to EC loan mechanism; hazardous consumer products; steel market stabilisation; fishing catch quotas; youth employment; Northern Ireland; upcoming Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]