1989 Mar 1 - 1989 Aug 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2676
European Policy (European Monetary System (EMS)) (Part 4)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 376 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| 89 Jul 12 We | Major | European Policy: Walters note to MT (UK participation in the exchange rate arrangements of the European Monetary System) [letter from Willem Buiter to "The Times"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 18 Th | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to Turnbull ("Exchange Rate versus Monetary Targets") ["I adduce that we are not (yet?) ready for anything like a viable fixxed [sic] system... If there are free markets, the ERM will have to change radically"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jul 12 We | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Rainforest protection - the Goldsmith proposal") ["that the industrialised countries pay Brazil etc for the service of maintaining their forests"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 10 We | Key | European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When 'The Time Will Be Ripe'") ["This note attempts to set out a positive response [to the EMS issue] which will, nevertheless, preserve our position" - copy annotated by MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 11 Th | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("The Dmark, the Dollar and Sterling") ["running down our reserves by buying sterling on a market that is falling because of a fundamental change in monetary conditions in Germany is simply a recipe for losing money"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 12 Fr | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Intervention") ["trying to contain the rise of the US dollar... I can see no justification for our intervention. It had no discernable effect on the out-turn of the market"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 16 Fr | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Germany's covert exchange control") [information requested by MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 18 Th | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to Gray (research topics) [monetary union; exchange rates; corporation and economic performance] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jul 11 Tu | Major | European Policy: Walters minute to Gray ("Intervention and sterilisation - 1987 - 1988") [analysis] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Mar 10 Fr | Major | European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("EMS Monetary Union and fraud") [main points from Delors press conference; "reiterates wish for sterling's full membership of ERM"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jul 10 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 10 July 1989: economic and monetary union: work programme") ["Commission to identify measures needed for EMU Stage 1 legislation by end of July"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 19 Fr | Major | European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The Delors Committee recommendations: Netherlands reactions") ["Van den Broek... added a strong appeal for those not in the EMS Exchange Rate Mechanism to join the system"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Aug 8 Tu | Major | European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("EMU: Delors report: the next steps") [Italian position] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 21 Fr | Major | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French reactions to the Delors Report") [Prime Minister Rocard comments to the press] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 18 Tu | Major | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Delors Committee Report: first French reactions") ["Beregovoy reportedly favourable... confirming France ready to discuss a new Treaty"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Mar 9 Th | Major | European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Visit of Italian Prime Minister") [De Mita visit to Madrid: "Spanish and Italian Prime Ministers declare support for EMU in principle"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 7 We | Major | European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain and the EMS") ["The annoucement [of intended entry] is in terms which do not make the commitment irrevocable"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 17 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Delors Committee Report on EMU: Chancellor's press conference, 17 April 1989") ["we cannot accept the transfer of sovereignty which is implied by the Delors Report"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Aug 22 Tu | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: German Finance Minister's views") [Economic and Monetary Union] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 21 Fr | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Economic and monetary union: Delors Report") ["Bundesbank is generally satisfied... as yet there is no clear liaison between Frankfurt and Bonn on the way forward and it is not clear what role the Bundesbank will play"] [declassified Jul 2016] |