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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 6 Th Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ECOFIN: UK Reserve on Monetary Committee Report") [Italians may ask UK to lift its reserves on Monetary Committee Report] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th Minor European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ERM: Question and Answer Briefing") [current text] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 9 Su Major European Policy: Powell minute for MT (rception at ECOFIN of UK hard ecu proposal) [misleading press reports, but "considerable interest" in UK ideas; "We are very much still in the game, but well short of having converted the EC to our way of thinking"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major 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 10 Mo Minor European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Informal ECOFIN, Rome 8 September: Italian Press Comment") [outcome seen as substantial setback for those seeking rapid implementation of Delors plan] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Informal ECOFIN") [UK proposals for stage 2 welcomed; disagreements on the pace of transition to single currency] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major 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 Sep 11 Tu Major European Policy: Griffiths briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: ERM") [comments by press and analysts support her position of delaying entry] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Possible Dates for ERM Membership") [reviews dates between Oct and end of year] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [release of key economic data; ECOFIN; possible ERM entry dates (Major will press for 5 Oct)] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 12 We Minor European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (Treasury paper on hard ecu) [Chancellor has made it available to Parliamentary Select Committees and other interested parties] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 19 We Major European Policy: Treasury minute ("Poehl's press conference: 19 September") [Pohl saying hard ecu rejected by ECOFIN; "Statement by the Deutsche Bundesbank on the establishment of an Economic and Monetary Union in Europe"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 21 Fr Major European Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (agreed text of Chancellor's public statement on ERM entry) ["not seeking delay, just awaiting the right circumstances"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 22 Sa Key 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 Sep 24 Mo Major European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, French Minister of Finance) [EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 26 We Major European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to Powell ("ERM") ["there is a risk that we shall be manoeuvred into a very weak position"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 3 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [inflation, interest rates and joining ERM; Major proposed MT announce entry in her conference speech on 12 Oct] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 3 We Major European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [options to join and reduce interest rates next weekend] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Exchange Rate Mechanism") [possible announcement in MT's Conference Speech: options/permutations] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th Key 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]