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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
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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 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 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 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 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 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]