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1984 Feb 1 - 1984 Mar 1
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1226
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 23A)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 139
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84 Feb 1 We Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["we can now only agree to differ... too late to change the figures in the White Paper"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 1 We Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK Position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [amended version of FCO paper sent under cover of Howe minute to MT of 27 Jan] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 1 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi; Steel Council; Tebbit talks on EC aid for British Steel; EC fishing quotas for 1984; Milk Marketing Board breach of EC regulations; French restrictions on food imports; EC Court judgement on poultry imports; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major European Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("EC Expenditure Problem and Control of UK Public Expenditure") ["It is right that we should have an effective mechanism... [but not if this] jeopardises the proper exploitation of Community programmes. ESPRIT is a case in point"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 8 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe report on post-Stuttgart talks with Genscher & Dumas; Agriculture/Finance/Social Affairs Councils; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 13 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Agriculture: Green Rates and Positive Monetary Compensatory Amounts") ["how this question is viewed in the Commission and in the seven member states which do not have positive monetary compensatory amounts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 13 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community expenditure programmes and control of United Kingdom public expenditure") ["three issues which will allow a long term and better system"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 15 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [UK's 1983 refunds; meeting of Energy Ministers; third Lome convention/overseas development; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 17 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Defence and Oversea Policy Committee, 22 February") ["item 2 (European Community budget: contingency plans for withholding)"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 17 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Expenditure Programmes and Control of United Kingdom Public Expenditure (E(A)(84) 12)") ["further discussions between... [Lawson and Tebbit] seem likely to lead to an agreement... on the public expenditure control of the... [UK] share of Community expenditure and specifically on ESPRIT"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 20 Mo Major European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Howe PS ("UK Position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [comments on Howe aide memoire to MT of 27th January] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 20 Mo Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("European Community expenditure and the control of UK public expenditure") ["joint [Lawson/Tebbit] proposal set out in the attached memorandum"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 21 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("EC Expenditure Programmes and UK Public Expenditure Control") [main points for discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 21 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("EC Budget: Contingency Plans") [strategy advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 22 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [budgetary discipline; financial guideline on agricultural spending; budget inequity; Spanish accession; Greenland; UK's 1983 budget refunds; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 24 Fr Major European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 (White Paper on the 1984 EC Budget) [draft for comments; proposed publication date; "This is the first White Paper which includes... UK contributions to and receipts from the EC budget"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 24 Fr Major European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Dumas, David Hannay, Guy Legras) [EC Budget discipline; Budget imbalance; new policies; common agricultural policy; EC enlargement; future meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 25 Sa Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations, Kohl/Mitterrand Meeting in Paris, 24 February") [report; monetary compensation amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 26 Su Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Visit of Kohl to Paris: Craxi to Bonn") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 27 Mo Major European Policy: UKE Bonn briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: Prime Minister's Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, 28 February") [agenda; Kohl talks with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]