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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1228
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 24)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 334
Themes: European Union (general), European Union Budget, British relations with France, British relations with Italy, British relations with Netherlands, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany

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Date Value Title
84 May 17 Th Major European Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("European Negotiations") [budget imbalance: negotiations with the French; Fontainebleau European Council 25/26 June; MT meeting with Kohl in London on 9 June] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Major European Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit (European Regional Development Fund) [report on outcome of Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Major European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("The Budget Negotiations") ["not making much headway... [UK] ready to work for a solution at the Fontainebleau European Council on 25/26 June"; suggested points for Ministers to make in bilateral contacts with European partners over the coming weeks] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 21 Mo Major European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to Rifkind ("Private Member's Motion, Monday 21 May: Future of the European Community") [negotiations on EC budgetary imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 22 Tu Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The EC Budget: Kohl/Mitterrand meeting, Saarbruecken, 20 May") ["indications that parameters for a budget settlement were discussed... [possible] secret negotiation before the European elections"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 22 Tu Major European Policy: Howe minute to Ridley ("Transport Council: 10 May") [Howe congratulations on successful outcome: infrastructure; lorry quotas; air transport liberalisation -"one of our key policy objectives"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 23 We Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("EC: French views on majority voting and a European Council secretariat") [anticipation of Mitterrand speech to European Parliament: majority voting; political union; permanent secretariat] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 23 We Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("European Community Budget negotiations") [budgetary discipline; 1983 refunds; ecu loan from member states to cover 1984 budget overrun] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 23 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [European Parliament elections; EC budget; UK refunds; EC draft budget for 1985; EC credit rating; Energy Council: coal; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 24 Th Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("President Mitterrand's ideas on Community institutions") [details of address to the European Parliament: majority voting; political union; permanent secretariat] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 28 Mo Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France/EC: interview with Dumas") [European political union; EC budget imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 30 We Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand's Speech to the European Parliament") [analysis; proposed UK response] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 31 Th Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("PESC projection of net payments to EEC institutions") ["extremely difficult to make any meaningful projections... level of our net payments will depend crucially on whether we reach early agreement on the budget imbalances problem"] [declassified Jan 2014]