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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Title |
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| 89 Apr 14 Fr | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Delors Report: meeting at 4.30pm") [Economic and Monetary Union: key issues and line to take in response to the Report] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 23 Fr | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Capital, banking and financial services: remaining restrictions") [analysis] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Mar 13 Mo | Major | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Young ("The ECU Treasury Bill Programme") [Tony Newton reply: "important to ensure that any public announcements [of inclusion of Japanese firms in the Programme] do not undermine the Prime Minister's warning to Mr Takeshita"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 13 Th | Major | European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting on Economic and Monetary Union") [Delors Report: "Obviously we do not like the Report... [but] it would be unwise to... [exclude] ourselves from further discussion"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 17 We | Major | European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Leon Brittan") ["main purpose... is to get over to him your current worries about the [EC]... its apparent detemination to extend [its] competence into new areas... your concern about [its] failure to honour political agreements... [and] securing genuinely free competition"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Mar 2 Th | Major | European Policy: Charles Powell letter to Treasury ("Delors Committee") [Governor of the Bank of England's draft paper for Committee: MT "has commented that it takes very little account of what was agreed at her meeting on 15 February"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 24 Sa | Key | European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (economic & monetary union: unscheduled meeting with Lawson & Howe) [MT agrees to meeting next day, prior to departure for European summit in Madrid; CDP: "very selfish"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 11 Th | Major | European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Genscher) ["Visit of the German Foreign Minister: European Community"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Aug 30 We | Major | European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("EMU: French proposal for a High-Level Group") [Economic and Monetary Union: UK not keen to participate in Group] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 23 Tu | Major | European Policy: FCO telegram to UKRep Brussels ("Informal ECOFIN, 19-21 May") ["debate on the economic and political implications of... economic and monetary union"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 13 Th | Major | European Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter to MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [publication of Delors Report and outstanding issues still to be resolved by the Committee] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 27 Th | Major | European Policy: MT letter to David Eccles (European Monetary System) ["Technology has mindlessly created one world... We must all work for intercontinental arrangements"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 12 Fr | Major | European Policy: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Economic and Monetary Union) ["Our approach to [the] proposals is part of our wider campaign to see the [EC] develop along the lines of Britain's relatively free trade, open competition system"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Mar 10 Fr | Major | European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Delors Committee") [Report on economic & monetary union; MT meeting with Governor of Bank of England] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 18 Su | Major | European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Europe: Delors and the Social Charter") ["key issue in responding to Delors is whether joining the ERM also requires this country to change from Thatcherism to European Corporatism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 27 Th | Major | European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Delors Report and the EMS") [case against UK membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 18 Th | Major | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [Exchange Rate Mechanism; strategy for achieving a free market EC & combating its protectionist institutions; EC Merger Control regulations; state aid to Renault; Harland & Wolff] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 3 We | Major | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["UK attitude towards the Delors Report and membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 May 20 Sa | Key | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson unhappy; MT seeks to smooth over public perception of rift in regard to economic policy; efforts to present united front complicated by subsequent No.10 press office advice/actions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Apr 14 Fr | Major | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe) ["Delors Committee Report": agreement of proposed line to take: "economic and monetary union are not possible within the existing Treaty"] [declassified Jul 2016] |