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PREM19/1480
European Policy (European Community Budget: developments in the European Community) (Part 30)

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Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 401
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85 Jun 5 Wed European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("EUREKA") [terms of reference, objectives, public sector funding; advisory role of business & consumers; Foreign Ministers Council, Stresa; Secretariat costs] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 5 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; Howe bilateral meetings on development of the EC/intergovernmental conference/UK objectives; European Court verdict on EC common transport policy; Agriculture Council, 27-29 May; Research Council, 4 June; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 10 Mon European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 2184 to FCO (1415Z) ("Internal Market: Commission White Paper") [analysis of draft paper by Lord Cockfield] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 10 Mon European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation in the European Community: Our VAT Threshold") ["best to go for agreement to the principle of amending the VAT directive to secure a higher limit before proposing a figure, especially one as hight as [your suggested] £50,000"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tue European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Development of the Community: Prime Minister's Questions") [lines to take; report on Foreign Ministers Council, Stresa] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 12 Wed European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Robin Nicholson ("United Kingdom Response to Eureka: Eurotype") ["I am content for the idea of Eurotype now to be floated in informal discussions... subject to a number of conditions and observations"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 12 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [proposed intergovernmental conference on progress towards European Union; freedom of establishment for architects; vehicle emissions; Finance Council, 11 June; 1985/1986 EC Budgets/UK VAT contribution; Agriculture Council, 11-12 June; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 19 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [preparation for Milan European Council; EC/Japan; White Paper on completion of common market; EC (Finance) Bill: Own Resources Decision/UK VAT contribution; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jun 26 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Integrated Mediterranean Programmes; EC (Finance) Bill: Own Resources Decision/UK VAT contribution; prices for cereals and rapeseed; Energy Council, 20 June; Transport Council, 24 June; overseas development; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 2 Tue European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 2448 to FCO (1110Z) ("Follow up to European Council: Institutional Questions") [Michael Butler, Weyland record of conversation: "Luxembourgers... concerned to minimise the scope for disagreement and friction at the InterGovernmental Conference"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 3 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [European Council in Milan, 28-29 June; EC (Finance) Bill; Environment Council, 26-28 June: vehicle emissions] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 5 Fri European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 575 to FCO (1513Z) ("Follow-Up to Milan European Council") [Fretwell, Lalumière: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 5 Fri European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 692 to FCO (1530Z) ("Milan European Council: Further German Press Reactions") ["HMG's irritation with Germany made the headlines at the beginning of the week, to be replaced with more measured articles about our reasonable approach"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 8 Mon European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to Norman Tebbit ("EEC Product Liability Directive") [food industry request for exemption for processed foodstuffs] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 10 Wed European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [ECOFIN Council, 8 July: reference framework for 1986 EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 11 Thu European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 598 to FCO (1655Z) ("European Security and Anglo-French Relations") [Kohl/Mitterrand talks; "Need for care in presenting British policy to Europeans on related Alliance issue[s] such as UK participation in US SDI research"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 12 Fri European Policy: Prime Minister Craxi letter to MT (European action to combat cancer) ["an initiative that could stand to symbolize... the joint efforts of the Community in the fields of advanced research"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 15 Mon European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Permanent Representative to the EC) [apppointment of David Hannay; request for meeting with MT to discuss InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 16 Tue European Policy: Rifkind PS letter to all Government Ministers PS's ("Future Development of the Community") ["I attach a short note of HMG's line... in the aftermath of the Milan European Council"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 17 Wed European Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (EUREKA) [European Council meeting on 17 July; public vs private finance] [released Dec 2014]