Eastern European and Soviet Department: European Political Co-Operation: Administrative Arrangements for Working Groups during the UK Presidency of the European Community, July-December 1981

A file containing documents concerning administrative arrangements for working groups during the British presidency of the European Community in the second half of 1981. Documents in the file include lists of European political-cooperation officials and working groups; the timetable and seating plan for a meeting of the East European working group in July 1981; arrangements for meetings at a British government conference centre at Lancaster House in London; and guidelines for liaising with "third countries" outside the European Community. Also included in the file are a report on Soviet subversion, intelligence activities, and economic and military aid in Africa; a translation of an interview with the French foreign minister, Claude Cheysson, in a French newspaper; and a letter giving the view that the East European working group "has never been a particularly dynamic or policy-orientated body", and should be made more effective.