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89 Nov 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Nick Ridley minute for MT ("ERM and EMU") [EC proposals, their consequences, best UK response - help chart European integration, find alternative to EMU; joining the ERM "a relatively minor question" depending on conditions being met] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 1 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Charles Powell minute for MT (Howe tv interviews on ERM) ["offensive passages ... bound to be taken up and exploited by the press"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 1 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("ERM and EMU") [attaches Nick Ridley paper written as you requested, "useful summary but does not ... have any new insights"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to FCO ("Economic and Monetary Union: Beyond Strasbourg") [how to carry forward campaign for Chancellor's hard ecu proposals after upcoming European Council] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 5 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to Lady Serota (House of Lords EC Select Committee's report on the Delors proposals for EMU) [thanks for advance copy] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 7 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Lady Serota letter to MT (House of Lords EC Select Committee's report on Delors proposals) [sends report on Social Charter] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 11 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)") [useful quote supportive of our approach from Governor of the Swiss National Bank] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Meeting with Andreotti") [IGC would need to last longer than a year; would not be drawn on Delors idea of a second IGC; MT -"very helpful"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jan 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("ERM Realignment") [Italians moving to narrow bands at bottom of existing range, effectively a minor devaluation; no German revaluation considered; minor impact on UK] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jan 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ERM: Lira Realignment") [Italy moves to narrower bands, precipitated sooner than intended owing to market pressure] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Jan 16 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Speech by the President of Deutsche Bundesbank ("Basic Features of a European Monetary Order") [CDP: "An important speech"; annotated by MT] [this copy declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO letter to Powell ("EMU") [procedural discussion of formalities consequent on Strasbourg IGC decision; Powell: "no point in raising objections"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Ratio of Government Spending to GDP: UK/EC Comparisons") [attached article by Tim Congdon rebuts claim Britain would be marginalised if it did not sign up to EMU; "We're doing better than Europe"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Sterling and the ERM") [Bérégovoy at press conference calls for British entry to ERM and says "work on EMU should be accelerated in the face of German unification"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to Powell ("EMU (Economic and Monetary Union)") [MT approves four points for British officials to make in Monetary Committee discussions] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Feb 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury Coordinating Group on Economic and Monetary Union report ("Next Steps on EMU: A Report to Ministers") [HMG's strategy and tactics for IGC on EMU] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO letter to Treasury ("British Membership of the ERM: Spanish Views") [Hurd reports President of Central Bank of Spain making "fervent appeal" to UK to join ERM] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Powell letter to Alan Walters ("The Next Stage in an Evolutionary Approach to Monetary Union") [asks his views on Michael Butler proposal for a European Monetary Fund] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Gray minute for Powell ("Financial Counsellor at the French Embassy") [Gray asks should he grant request to see the Counsellor? Powell suggests he direct the man to the Treasury] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Michael Butler memorandum for No.10 ("Stage 2 of Economic and Monetary Union") [asks Powell's comments on enclosed draft paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Economic and Monetary Union: Commission Paper for ECOFIN") [rejects UK proposals in favour of Delors approach] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Major minute for MT ("ECOFIN") [two main agenda items: German economic and monetary unification, the progress of EMU in the Community] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Bérégovoy and EMU") [source claims that Bérégovoy had told Mitterrand that EMU as defined in the Delors Report would not work and he would not participate in it] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to MT ("Second Stage of EMU") [enclosing paper on "The Next Stage in an Evolutionary Approach to Monetary Union] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation ("Exchange Rate Mechanism") [MT, Major bilateral - timetable for membership of ERM; interest rates expected to rise; MT: "we cannot contemplate joining the mechanism in these circumstances"; JM: agrees but "important to consider carefully in the near future the options for the date of joining"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Mar 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major) [agreed that conditions for joining EMS not yet met; Major wanted consideration in "near future", issue closely related to preparations for IGC; sterling in the markets] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation ("European Monetary Issues") [MT bilateral with Major; MT - "if other member states decide to take such steps that is their concern, but the UK should make clear that it is not prepared to participate in the process"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 5 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Valery Giscard d'Estaing letter to MT (proposals to accelerate European Economic and Monetary Union) [joint initiative with Helmut Schmidt] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to Powell ("Second Stage of EMU: Letter from Sir Michael Butler") [offers draft reply to Butler; proposals "ingenious and well thought out"; Chancellor shortly to put his thoughts on EMU to MT] declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury minute for Powell ("Economic and Monetary Union") [latest draft of Chancellor's upcoming minute to MT] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 9 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: John Major minute for MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") ["very startled at the attitude of our European partners...all of them were determined to agree a Treaty for full EMU"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 11 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to Michael Butler (thanking for his paper on economic and monetary union) [happy to discuss in person] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("EMU") [meeting with the Chancellor; our evolutionary approach has run out of steam; options for handling EMU] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 18 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Wicks) [preliminary consideration of our approach to next phase of EMU discussion; Butler proposals to be worked up, need to "finesse attempts to impose a binding commitment to EMU"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Michael Butler") [doubts Butler's proposals for Stage 2 of EMU would secure postponement of Stage 3] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("Sir Michael Butler's Paper on EMU") [technical flaws; Germans do not like it; encourage Butler and his group to think more] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 20 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Michael Butler) [City of London concerned to "remain the centre of monetary developments in Europe"; MT - "we could not pour ourselves into the Delors mould"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter for MT ("EMU") [further thoughts on proposals for second stage of economic and monetary union] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 letter to Treasury ("EMU") [MT requesting a note on the Spanish experience following the entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Obstacles to a Free Market in Financial Services in the EC") [Michael Scholar sees German measures as prudential rather covert exchange controls] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ERM: Security Instructions") [special instructions for documents on timing and terms of entry ('ADSO' codeword)] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ERM Membership: Spain") [difficult to draw lessons for UK from Spanish experience of joining] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 26 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Joining the ERM: Dates") [draft Treasury minute supplied to No.10 on personal basis for diary planning] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Apr 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to MT (covert exchange controls) [encloses papers on the topic by Graham Bishop] [declassified Dec 2016]

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