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PREM19/2675
European Policy (European Monetary System (EMS)) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 327

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87 Jun 10 We Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("EMS") [European Monetary System: pros & cons; "full [membership]... after the election... will be a priority for the Chancellor... If you remain adamantly opposed.. You could again find yourself isolated"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 1 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters, Brian Griffiths) [EMS: Walters even more strongly against full membership than he was before, "if that were possible"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 20 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("EMS") [European Monetary System: "Lord President... will have the key role in this. I suggest you tell him that you remain firmly opposed to membership and will not be shaken by the Chancellor, the Foreign Secretary and the Governor"] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Jul 27 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["EMS": European Monetary System: opposed views] [declassified Jul 2016]
87 Aug 10 Mo Major European Policy: No.10 note to MT (European Monetary System) ['Guardian' article on Lawson's "secret monetary policy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Mar 30 We Major European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("EC Monetary Cooperation") ["recent proposals... including... a European Central Bank... our immediate objective is to ensure that these ideas are discussed together in their proper fora"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 May 7 Sa Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Monetary Union") ["Bundesbank... accepts need for progress towards still distant goal... favours making committee of Central Bank governors... nucleus of pragmatic cooperation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 May 16 Mo Key European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Howe) [MT furious with Howe for raising EMS in his Perth speech; refuses his request for trilateral meeting with Lawson, tells him to keep quiet] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jun 1 We Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European monetary cooperation") ["Kohl... [expected] to propose a study... probably to be done by committee of Central Bank governors"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jun 10 Fr Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Central Bank and monetary cooperation") ["Germans still favour central bank governors being charged... with a study... about the future... but do not see this squaring with... Mitterand's position... no wish to exclude the UK"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 6 We Major European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain and the European monetary system") ["peseta will enter the ECU basket at the September 1989 review... signs that entry into the EMS will be not long delayed thereafter"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 22 Fr Major European Policy: FCO telegram to UKREP Brussels ("Meeting of EC Monetary Committee: 19 July") [summary] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 11 Th Major European Policy: Alan Walters letter to No.10 (European Monetary System) [report of comments by Manfred Wegner] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 28 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Economic and monetary union") [MT agrees to proposed meeting with Lawson, Howe and Robin Leigh-Pemberton] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 13 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Delors Committee: economic and monetary union") [current position & next steps] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 14 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Leigh-Pemberton) ["Delors Committee: economic and monetary union"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 16 Fr Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Monetary Union") [French priorities] [declassified Jul 2016]
89 Jan 25 We Major European Policy: Ingham minute to Turnbull ("Lobby Party") [MT irate at private comments on the European Monetary System being fed to the press] [declassified Jul 2016]
89 Feb 13 Mo Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Delors Committee") [economic and monetary union: comments on draft paper by Governor of the Bank of England] [declassified Jul 2016]
89 Feb 13 Mo Major European Policy: Brittan letter to MT (Monetary progress in the European Community) [copy of speech to Conservative Group of Europe arguing "case stronger than ever for UK participation in the Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016]