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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1229
European policy (European Community budget; future of Europe) (Part 25)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 291
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 31 Th Major European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation ("EC Wine Regulations") [Council of Agriculture Ministers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Paper on the Future of the European Community") ["intended to be a communication from... [MT] to... Kohl personally... As... [MT] requested, the paper emphasises the scope for developing... [EC] external activities. It also offers ideas on the internal side... Howe considers the latter desirable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Paper for Chancellor Kohl ("Europe - The Future") and Reactions to Franco German Statements on the Future of the Community") ["a good deal of rhetoric in the... [EC] this week about moves to European Union"; proposed lines to take; "The paper for... Kohl can help"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 4 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Paper on the Future of the European Community") [amendments to draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 4 Mo Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("EC Budget Negotiations") ["The central issue at Fontainebleau will be budget imbalances. But [also]... the 1984 overrun... the financing of our 1984 refunds and the 1985 budget... four broad options] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 4 Mo Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Community Budget Negotiations") [Howe "agrees that colleagues should take the line proposed by... [Lawson] on budgetary discipline, 1983 refunds and the Commission's loan proposal... [EC may] run out of money in the autumn... [but there] is no question of making a concession"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 4 Mo Major European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French and German Ideas on the Future of the European Community") [Howe "considers that by far the most effective way of inluencing the debate... is by putting forward our own ideas... [as] set out in the paper for... Kohl which we have sent you"; analysis of French ideas; suggested approach for bilateral discussions at Economic Summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 4 Mo Major European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (the future handling of European questions) [Robert Armstrong, Jacques Attali] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 5 Tu Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("European Community: Budget Negotiations and "Overrun"") ["link between... long term reform... 1984 refund... and the budget overrun has been discussed... in substance, there is now agreement... [Howe] will probably disagree with the tactics recommended by [Lawson]"; advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 6 We Major European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("EC Budget Negotiations") ["mounting unease among our own backbenchers that... we will... [agree] to an increase in the... [EC's] own resources - without getting the CAP back into its cage"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 6 We Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [development of EC; UK refunds; European Council, Fontainebleau 25-26 June; EC Heads of Mission Conference, 5 June; EC budget discipline; quotas for North Sea herring; working time regulation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 7 Th Major European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("EC Budget Negotiations") ["I agree with the approach set out in your minute [of 4 June], subject to the points above"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 7 Th Major European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Negotiations") ["Your meetings with... Kohl and... Mitterrand will be the last opportunity to discuss... [UK] contribution to... [EC] budget directly with them before Fontainebleau... I suggest that you should give Craxi and Thorn also copies of our paper on the future development of the [EC]" ] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mo Major European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 ("Paper on the Future of Europe") [distribution] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Terence Higgins MP and other backbench Members") [EC budget settlement] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Major European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Community Budget Negotiations and the 1984/85 Budget Overrun") [proposed line to take, as agreed with Lawson] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Major European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Preparation for European Council of 25-26 June") [proposed meeting to discuss "a paper on the state of the negotiation and the possible options on the correction of the budget inequity and the... [UK] refunds"; briefing meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Major European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC budget/refunds; Social Affairs Council - employment issues; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 13 We Major European Policy: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budget Committee: 13 June") ["1985 Preliminary Draft Budget": preliminary discussions] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 13 We Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Community Budget Negotiations and the 1984/85 Budget Overrun") [MT unhappy with line to take agreed between Lawson & Howe] [declassified Jan 2014]