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Maastricht Treaty

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Maastricht Treaty

 officially Treaty on European Union

Agreement that established the European Union (EU) as successor to the European Community. It bestowed EU citizenship on every national of its member states, provided for the introduction of a central banking system and a common currency (see euro), and committed the member states to work toward a common foreign and security policy. Signed in 1992, it was ratified and took effect in 1993. See also European Court of Justice, European Parliament, Treaties of Rome.



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IT may be re-called how (with considerable newspaper coverage and much public support) the late Norris McWhirter and I laid treason charges against the Government ministers responsible for signing the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Second, the Maastricht treaty ran to the best part of a thousand pages, and the Lisbon treaty will, no doubt, be an equally weighty tome.
In February Polish Finance Minister Jan Rostowski said Poland would meet the Maastricht Treaty macro-economic convergence criteria for euro adoption -- focused on limiting inflation -- by 2010-2012.
 
 
 
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