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1990 Feb 16 - 1990 Jul 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2980
European Policy (Special European Council meeting, Dublin, April 1990; European Council meeting, Dublin, June 1990) (Part 36A)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 390
Themes: European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union

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90 Feb 16 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 conversation record (early morning) (Powell, Irish Ambassador) [Haughey calling Special European Council to discuss consequences for EC of German unification; MT response] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 16 Fr Major European Policy: Cabinet Office conversation record (Butler, Kerr, Nally, Dorr) [Haughey suggesting one day meeting on lines of Paris dinner Nov 1989] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 16 Fr Major European Policy: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (summoning European Council) ["special informal meeting" to consider implications for EC of events in Eastern Europe, and particularly German unification] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 27 Tu Major European Policy: MT to Taoiseach Haughey (special European Council) [agreed need to discuss implications for EC of German unification, but wants not to "get led off into other areas"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 16 Fr Major European Policy: UKREP Brussels conversation record (Hannay, Powell, Williamson lunch) [German unification - Dublin Council; Commission planning] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 9 Mo Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 418 to FCO (1711Z) (“Dublin European Council, Institutional questions: French views”) ["(a) not yet firm, but (b) very different from those of Germans, Belgians or Italians"; expecting little substantive discussion at Dublin] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 19 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 501 to FCO (1741Z) (“Franco-German Initiative on Political Union”) [joint Kohl-Mitterrand procedural message to Haughey "ostensibly restores Franco-German harmony on political union before the Dublin Summit"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 24 Tu Major European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 1148 to FCO (1815Z) (“Informal European Council: 28 April 1990”) [German unification unlikely to be controversial at the Council because no treaty change involved] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 We Major European Policy: Haughey letter to MT (special European Council) [smooth integration of East Germany] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Th Minor European Policy: FCO minute (“Dublin European Council, 28 April: New Greek Prime Minister”) [Mitsotakis seeks bilateral; advice; technical assistance for bodyguards] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Th Major European Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT, Hurd) (1610Z-1630Z) [MT giving thought to political union - "the phrase ... caused far more difficulty than good"; we should define what it does NOT mean] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Th Minor European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 531 to FCO (1619Z) (“Dublin Summit: Second IGC”) ["Germans ready to agree on a procedural solution"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Th Major European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram 375 to FCO (1530Z) (“Informal European Council: 28 April”) [German unification and Eastern Europe will occupy the morning; Political Union over lunch, only resumed afterwards if delegations insist; CSCE, narcotics and other matters in the afternoon] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 27 Fr Major European Policy: Powell briefing for MT (“Informal European Council, Dublin”) ["ostensibly about the EC aspects of German unification" but for media only one issue - "political union"; as in Bermuda need to trump press stories about MT isolated or backing down] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 27 Fr Major European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 477 to FCO (1126Z) (“Dublin European Council: French Approach”) ["Mitterrand wants a good press from this summit", wanting preparatory procedural work for an IGC launched; French believe they have significant common ground with UK on the substance of "Political Union"; Mitterrand "likely to be sound" on German unification] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 27 Fr Minor European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 534 to FCO (1256Z) (“Dublin Summit”) [German press expect unification to be quickly dispatched; press interest will be focussed on Political Union and UK attitude towards it] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 27 Fr Major European Policy: UKE Brussels telegram 135 to FCO (1138Z) (“Informal European Council: Interview with Belgian Prime Minister”) [Martens said UK would come to accept the essentials of Political Union] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 27 Fr Major European Policy: Powell note for MT (1600Z) (Dublin European Council Presidency Conclusions) [attaches annotated draft] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 28 Sa Major European Policy: UKREP Brussels minute for Foreign Secretary (“German unification: Treaty Base for Derogations”) [Article 237 not being used therefore unanimity not required] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 28 Sa Major European Policy: Kerr note to Foreign Secretary (“EBRD: The US 'deal'”) [location of EBRD, Presidency and IMF quotas] [declassified Dec 2016]