Chrono - Cabinet of President Jacques Delors (Delors I)

Documents from [1984] to [1987]

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HAEU Reference Code
DW-02
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6 files

Reference Archivists

Carr, Mary

Context

Administrative and Biographical History

Six chrono files concerning the period when David White was a member of the cabinet of President Jacques Delors. The most substantial work was done from 1985 - 1987.
Notes for the period until end-February include issues such as: budgetary procedure, the clearance of agricultural accounts despite difficulties concerning a Greek issue, fisheries, funding for Northern Ireland after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, problems with EIB projects which had infringed the public procurement legislation. There is also some material concerning the "GRV", the "grande rendez-vous" as President Delors called it, of the institutions and Member States on the budgetary package then in preparation.

Content and Structure

Abstract

The chrono files are composed of notes that White wrote or on matters on which he intervened substantially. The papers refer in particular to his fields of responsibility: budget and financial control, budgetary aspects of the CAP in particular and perhaps the most interesting of all - clearance of accounts, fisheries policy, energy including the Tchernobyl accident, relations with the European Parliament and the Anglo-Irish Agreement. There are some interesting notes about efforts to prepare constructively for the visit of Bob Geldof to the EP - and a draft letter to the Bulletin, pointing out that the Commisson had executed a food relief programme 10 times the total of that achieved by Geldof thereby refuting the criticism that the EC did nothing to aid a famine ravaged Ethiopia.

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