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PDF 89 Mar 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Mar 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Visit of Italian Prime Minister") [De Mita visit to Madrid: "Spanish and Italian Prime Ministers declare support for EMU in principle"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("EMS Monetary Union and fraud") [main points from Delors press conference; "reiterates wish for sterling's full membership of ERM"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Mar 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Delors Committee Report on EMU: Chancellor's press conference, 17 April 1989") ["we cannot accept the transfer of sovereignty which is implied by the Delors Report"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Delors Committee Report: first French reactions") ["Beregovoy reportedly favourable... confirming France ready to discuss a new Treaty"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French reactions to the Delors Report") [Prime Minister Rocard comments to the press] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Economic and monetary union: Delors Report") ["Bundesbank is generally satisfied... as yet there is no clear liaison between Frankfurt and Bonn on the way forward and it is not clear what role the Bundesbank will play"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("Meetings with Prime Minister Lubbers, Chancellor Kohl and President de Mita: the Delors Report") [proposed lines to take] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn record of conversation ("European Monetary Cooperation: Delors Report") [HM Ambassador Mallaby, State Secretary Tietmeyer - FRG Finance Ministry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Genscher) ["Visit of the German Foreign Minister: European Community"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Gray (research topics) [monetary union; exchange rates; corporation and economic performance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The Delors Committee recommendations: Netherlands reactions") ["Van den Broek... added a strong appeal for those not in the EMS Exchange Rate Mechanism to join the system"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 May 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (UK membership of the ERM) [Paul Gray, Nigel Wicks: No.10 request that Lawson publicly clarify his position] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain and the EMS") ["The annoucement [of intended entry] is in terms which do not make the commitment irrevocable"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Germany's covert exchange control") [information requested by MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jun 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("European Monetary Cooperation") [Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England meeting with President of Bundesbank] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Capital, banking and financial services: remaining restrictions") [analysis] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Michael Butler, Jeremy Morse, Terence Burns) [economic & monetary union: follow-up to Madrid Council discussion of Delors report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 10 July 1989: economic and monetary union: work programme") ["Commission to identify measures needed for EMU Stage 1 legislation by end of July"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Gray ("Intervention and sterilisation - 1987 - 1988") [analysis] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Aug 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("EMU: Delors report: the next steps") [Italian position] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Aug 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Economic and Monetary Union") ["First analysis of the Delors report by the Federal Economics Ministry reflects considerable scepticism"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Aug 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: German Finance Minister's views") [Economic and Monetary Union] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Aug 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
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