Item 15A - Special Advisors to the Delors Task Force

2 files, c. 80 pp

Files of documents relating to the Special Advisors to the Delors Task Force, which included Hugh Logue, Howard McNally and Robert Ramsay. Jacques Delors was President of the European Commission 1985-1995 and established a 23-person task force that was headed by Mr Carlo Trojan, former Secretary General of the European Commission. Logue, along with McNally and Ramsay, was asked by President Jacques Delors to consult all parties in Northern Ireland. Their recommendations became the blueprint for the first EU PEACE Programme.

File of correspondence and documents relating to the work of the Delors Task Force. Includes MS cover note by Logue - "Draft Package which became Peace 1. Strategy - Note to Carlo Trojan, 14 Nov 1994".
Document titled "Advice Notes for C[arlo] Trojan"; "Visit to N. Ireland of 3 Special Advisors: Hugh Logue, Howard McNally, Robert Ramsay", describing methodology, Brussels 30 Oct 1994".

Documents grouped with note by Logue "Sept '94 - Press Release, Delors From EU Commission; Response to IRA Ceasefire, Commitment of EU; Includes European Commission Press Release on EU support for Northern Ireland Peace Process post ceasefire by Provisional IRA;
Document with note by Logue "...related to NI Task Force 1994; Early Consultation for Peace 1 Oct 94; Consultation Process, Republican UUP DUP Working Together; Draft Press release.

Document with cover note by Logue "British Government Response to EU Task Force.

Copy press cuttings from Delors meeting with Northern Ireland MEPs and of the role of the taskforce members. Headlines include "[Ian] Paisley boycotts EC event over Dublin Invite" (7 Dec 1994) and "Delors Secures £250m extra for Northern Peace" (8 Dec 1994, Irish Independent).

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