1990 Nov 8 - 1991 Feb 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/3325
European Policy (European Monetary System (EMS): economic and monetary union) (Part 9)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2017 Jul 20 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 424 |
| Any docs withheld? |
PREM19/3325 - download whole file (PDF, 402.03 MB)
Selections from this file
Showing items 41 - 54 of 54
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 91 Jan 25 Fr | Major | European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lamont, Juncker) [IGC procedure; bilateral contacts; French attitude to EMU; Delors; UK approach; Germany; ECOFIN; monetary union] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Jan 28 Mo | Major | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Major (EMU Intergovernmental Conference (IGC): Draft Treaty Texts) [UK submitting draft texts; Major unperturbed by reference to Stage 3] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Jan 28 Mo | Minor | European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council and EMU IGC: 28 January: Summary") ["efficiently chaired by Juncker"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Jan 29 Tu | Major | European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter for Major (modified UK proposals for "hard ecu" and European Monetary Fund) [glad of UK participation in debate, but reservations over hard ecu] declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 1 Fr | Major | European Policy: Hurd minute for Major ("Inter-Governmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [agrees with Lamont's "negotiating strategy"; UK being taken "increasingly seriously as a negotiating partner"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 5 Tu | Major | European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Garel-Jones, Williamson, Kerr) [EMU and EPU Inter-Governmental Conferences - Luxembourg presidency seeking early results; "natural run of both IGCs" would culminate in Dec 1991 at Maastricht] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 8 Fr | Major | European Policy: Peter Lilley letter for Chancellor ("Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [comments on Lamont's paper] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 12 Tu | Minor | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Major ("An Ecu Bond Issue") [opportunity to follow up Major's proposal of Oct 1990] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 19 Tu | Major | European Policy: FCO telegram to UKREP Brussels and other EC posts ("Monetary Committee: 18 February") [account of meeting] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 21 Th | Minor | European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Major ("Ecu Bond Issue") [successful outcome of UK's first ecu bond issue] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 25 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK/FRG Summit, 11 March: Handling of EMU") ["game plan for moving forward Anglo-German dialogue on EMU at summit"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 25 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK/FRG Summit, 11 March: German Views on EMU") ["The German internal debate is evolving in ways which could be helpful to us"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 25 Mo | Major | European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("EMU/IGC: 25 February") [objectives of EMU; multiannual guidelines & multinational surveillance; budget deficits; financial support mechanism] [declassified July 2017] |
| 91 Feb 27 We | Minor | European Policy: Sir Leon Brittan letter for Major (Brittan press article on problems of convergence) ["Coming Together for a Single Currency"] [declassified July 2017] |