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1990 Jul 1 - 1990 Oct 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2984
European Policy (European Monetary System (EMS): economic and monetary union) (Part 8)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jun 5
Classification: Secret
Page count: 381
Any docs withheld? 4

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90 Sep 22 Sat European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Thu European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 3 Tue European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: Joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism") [Major still pressing for entry in July, but not as strongly as before] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 3 Tue European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor-President of the Bundesbank) [Germany monetary union; EMU; ERM] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 3 Tue European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union: The Way Ahead") [Chancellor's signed article "pushing our hard ecu proposals" for European press] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 4 Wed European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [possible dates for UK entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism; Major continues to urge July; decision to review in September] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 6 Fri European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chancellor's EMU Proposals: Views of the Governor of the Bank of France") [Larosiere welcomes "the spirit" of the proposals, but regrets not tabled a year ago] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 23 Mon European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 23 July EMU") [Italian presidency claim broad consensus for their timetable of EMU work; Chancellor introduced UK ideas] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 4 Tue European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Economic and Monetary Union: Speech by Poehl") ["expresses doubts with moving ahead with EMU too quickly ... sympathises with the British concept of competing currencies"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mon European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French Press Reaction to ECOFIN") ["certain sourness at what is seen as growing support for the cautious British approach"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tue European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Informal ECOFIN") [German press highlights differences over timing of stage two and favours cautious approach] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mon European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK Entry to the ERM: German Reactions") [general welcome; some expect it to strengthen German resistance to rapid EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mon European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 8 October: EMU") [general congratulations on UK entry to ERM, save from Carli] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 17 Wed European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary") [Poehl said British hard ecu proposals too late to influence debate, too soon to broker agreement in IGC] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 17 Wed European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary to Bonn, 15 October") [Maude addresses German equivalent of CBI] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Thu European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chancellor Kohl on EMU") [Kohl on French TV suggests 1 January 1994 as the starting date for stage 2] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 19 Fri European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU") [Kohl's suggested date for stage 2 "will have pleased the European lobby and displeased the financial community"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 17 Tue European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to Powell (EMU: proposed institutional arrangements for stage 2) [MT: "This is most un-cooperative of Michael"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Jul 23 Mon European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to Powell ("EMU: Visit to Sarcinelli (Italian Treasury) and Pado-Schioppa (Bank of Italy)") [urges MT "shading her line a little" on single currency; CDP: "You will not find this palatable"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Aug 9 Thu European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (CBI paper on EMU) [MT: "Singularly unhelpful and WRONG in its analysis"] [declassified Jun 2018]