1985 Mar 5 - 1985 May 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1479
European Policy (European Community Budget: developments in the European Community) (Part 29)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 314 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Mar 5 Tu | Major | European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 815 to FCO (2159Z) ("Special Committee for Agriculture: 4-6 March 1985 Price Proposals General Reactions") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 195 to FCO (1830Z) ("EC Financing") [risk of diplomatic rift over UK abatement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with PM of Belgium; EC enlargement; EC Budget: 1985, own resources decision, UK ECU abatement; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 11 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 913 to FCO (1925Z) ("Commission Programme for 1985") [analysis of key proposals] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC enlargement; EC Budget: 1985 overrun, Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, own resources decision, UK ECU abatement; Environmental Impact Assessment Directive; vehicle emissions; 1985-89 expenditure on financing of agricultural structures; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Major | European Policy: Tebbit minute to Howe ("Co-operation with the Dutch on the Internal Market") ["we should not pursue... to the point where it prejudices efforts to form a common position with other, perhaps less tractable, Member States"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community Budget 1985, the Revised Own Resources Decision and the United Kingdom's 1000 Million ECU Abatement") [summary of "the state of the various proposals for establishing a 1985 Community budget"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Major | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 209 to FCO (1130Z) ("IMPS") [Integrated Mediterranean Programmes: "non-tilting of structural funds towards the Mediterranean"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 20 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Spain/Portugal entry to EC: negotiations; Dooge Committee report to European Council; vehicle emissions; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 21 Th | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [vehicle emissions; entry to EC: negotiations with Spain/Portugal; EC Budget: own resources decision] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 22 Fr | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17-21 March") [EC enlargement/fisheries sector negotiations with Spain; EC Budget: own resources decision; 1985 Budget overrun; Intergovernmental Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 22 Fr | Major | European Policy: Howe minute to Tom King ("European Social Fund: Part-Time Work Subsidies") [legal challenge to EC decision to limit funds] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Major | European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Payment of Supplementary Benefit to EC Nationals") [options for excluding so-called "spaghetti scroungers"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Spain/Portugal accession to EC; EC Budget - own resources decision; amendments to the steel aids code; agriculture: price-fixing proposals; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 291 to FCO (1835Z) ("European Union: German Views") [Horst Teltschik speech in Bonn on future of the EC; "British attitudes evolving. ... Prospects for progress not too bad. Unaniminity important but the slowest ship should not hold up the convoy"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 3 We | Major | European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Community Budget") [inter-governmental agreement to finance 1985 overrun & establish 1985 Budget: draft telegram to UKE Bonn urging no W. German interference in European Council ratification of own resources decision] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 15 Mo | Major | European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Development of the European Community") [analysis of French & W. German thinking; draft agreement on political cooperation; UK objectives for internal market; EC decision-taking procedure; role of the European Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 16 Tu | Major | European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Development of the European Community") [MT, Lawson, Tebbit & Havers responses to Howe's proposed guidelines for handling of discussions on future of the EC, in run-up to European Council in June] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 17 We | Major | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [summary of successful UK negotiations of terms of entry for Spain/Portugal to EC; revised Own Resources Decision/abatement of UK payments to EC; Integrated Mediterranean Programmes; reducing burden of EC legislation on small business; Citizens' Europe & Dooge Committee reports; IMF role in policing individual countries' economic policies; encouragement of official use of ECU; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 18 Th | Major | European Policy: FCO minute ("Draft Agreement on Political Cooperation") [present state of text, with annotations by Powell] [released Dec 2014] |