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1989 Jun 23 - 1989 Jun 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2666
European Policy (European Council meeting, Madrid, June 1989) (Part 33)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 348
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89 Jun 27 Tue European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("European Council: Madrid: 26/27 June") [summary of discussions] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 27 Tue European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Madrid summit") [post mortem - "judgment of [Howe & Lawson]... was faulty" - no pressure to set date for entry; setting a date would not have forestalled future work on Stages 2 & 3] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 27 Tue European Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Your press conference") [outcomes of the Madrid European Council & UK reaction to the Delors Report: press arrangements; briefing; lines to take] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 27 Tue European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("EPC texts") [European Council Madrid: European Presidency Conclusions: papers for discussion at Foreign Ministers' Dinner] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 26 Mon European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Debt") [European Council Madrid: Spanish proposal for a European Guarantee Fund; Latin America; aid to Bangladesh] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 26 Mon European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Haughey) [bilateral at European Council: reform of Health services; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 26 Mon European Policy: Powell record of conversation ("European Council, Madrid: Heads of Government Dinner") [world economy/debt; rainforest protection; middle-income debt; China; fraud] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 26 Mon European Policy: FCO minute: Deputy Under-Secretary to Howe PS ("Synthesis: Paper on relations with Eastern Europe") [European Council Madrid] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 24 Sat European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Haughey") [European Council Madrid: Anglo-Irish Agreement; border security; EC & Irish Presidency; UDR use of plastic baton rounds] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 24 Sat European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Tomorrow's meeting") [Howe/Lawson: European Council Madrid: discussion of their concerns, primarily on ERM & Conservative Party divisions over Europe; outline of counter-arguments for MT to deploy if deemed necessary] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 24 Sat European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Lubbers") [European Council Madrid: EMU; Social Charter] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 24 Sat European Policy: Howe PS minute to No.10 ("Madrid European Council: social dimension") [EC comparative study on working conditions: "rather helpful to our case on the social charter"] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 24 Sat European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The European Council and Poland") [financial aid] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Delors pre-Madrid press conference") [European Council: Charles Powell: "Delors does not want you to set a date for ERM membership!!"] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Italy and the Madrid European Council") [anticipated stances on key issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Madrid European Council: French views on monetary union") ["key topic for the French"] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("European Council: the Irish Taoiseach") [domestic political scene] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMS and EMU: comments by President of the Bundesbank") ["a consistent policy... more important than insititutional change or a single currency"] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: Peter Lilley PS letter to No.10 ("Fraud against the Community Budget") ["Excellent progress has been made since the Prime Minister first raised the possibility of discussing fraud at [the European Council in] Madrid in the House in February" ] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Jun 23 Fri European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("British merchant shipping") [cabotage] [declassified Jul 2017]