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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)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 291
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84 Jan 25 We Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Institute of Fiscal Studies: Study on EC Budget") ["Our concern is... that the IFS figures can easily be misinterpreted by those opposed to the Government's negotiating strategy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 25 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [post-Stuttgart negotiations; EC enlargement; ESPRIT information technology programme; Jopling meeting with Danish counterpart; Anglo-Italian summit; Steel Council; Fisheries Council; French farmer protests] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 27 Fr Major European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UK position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [summary of UK position on main issues; MT: "very useful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 28 Sa Major European Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl (EC negotiations) ["Mitterrand and I... at one on the urgent need to relaunch the Community... Unless decisive progress can be made at... [the March European Council] the disarray of the Community will get worse] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["unwise to assume... that the £42 million balance of our 1982 Risk Sharing funds will be paid by 31 March"; MT thinks proposed redraft "unduly defensive & rather weak"] [declassified Jan 2014]