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1989 Dec 18 - 1990 Nov 7
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2979
European Policy (Special European Council meeting in Rome, October 1990) (Part 37)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 166
Any docs withheld? 2

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90 Jul 19 Th Minor EC/Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("European Councils in the Italian and Luxembourg Presidencies") [possible dates] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 5 We Major EC: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (Rome Special European Council) [case for calling] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 24 Mo Major EC: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome Special European Council) [need also to discuss the Gulf] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 12 Fr Major EC/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("European Council, 27/28 Oct: Italian presidency plans") [Jay official talks in Rome - IGCs a focus, Italians had hoped to secure a 'mandate' for both, now saying unlikely] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th Major EC/Italy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French views on the European Council") [Jay conversation with Elizabeth Guigou] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr Major European Policy: Ingham minute for MT ("European Council - Rome") [key points briefing for Sunday Lobby] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 21 Su Minor EC/Italy: Powell minute to MT's diary secretary ("European Council, Rome") [MT wants a briefing meeting ideally on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo Major EC/Gulf: FCO minute to Powell ("Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl: Special European Council, Rome, 27/28 Oct 1990") [German financial support for British deployment to Gulf; aid to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 23 Tu Major EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (Delors press conference) [pre-Rome European Council review; Delors suggests December Council should set date for EMU Stage 2, with only two hour talk on political union] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu Major EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council: 22 Oct 1990") [Carli report on EMU to be forwarded to European Council, Italian presidency advising that preparatory work was complete] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We Major European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("European Council: Rome: 27/28 October 1990: EC issues") [Soviet Union/Eastern Europe; GATT/agriculture; EMU; political union] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We Major EC: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (Rome European Council agenda) [no mention of GATT Uruguay round] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th Major European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("European Council in Rome") ["It is set to be a fairly trying occasion" - European political union; EMU; USSR & Eastern Europe; the Gulf; trans-Atlantic relations; sites of EC institutions; Greek loan] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th Major EC/GATT: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome European Council agenda) ["we may need to have a good discussion of the GATT Uruguay round"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th Major EC/France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council 27/28 Oct and the PM's bilateral with meeting with Pres Mitterrand: scene setter") [sees EC issues through prism of Franco-German balance; Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr Major EC: Hurd minute for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: 27/28 October") [Italians want to focus on preparations for the two IGCs; wants target date for transition to EMU Stage II] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr Major EC: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Kohl) ["Special European Council in Rome" - hostages in Iraq; date for transition to EMU Stage II, GATT] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr Major European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Lunch with President Mitterrand: Rome, 27 October") [France internal; Gulf crisis - French position, burden sharing, WEU aspects, Arab/Israel, Lebanon; EC issues - institutional reform; agriculture/GATT; USSR; enlargement; bilateral defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr Major Gulf/EC: No.10 record of conversation (Scowcroft-Powell) [US concern that the French were pushing strongly for an early International Conference on Arab/Israel] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa Key EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016]