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| | SCADPlus: Treaty of Maastricht on European Union |
 | | The Treaty on European Union has established the principle of subsidiarity as a general rule, which was initially applied to environmental policy in the Single European Act. | | | The Maastricht Treaty creates the European Union, which consists of three pillars: the European Communities, common foreign and security policy and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. | | | Besides, the Treaty involves Parliament in the procedure for confirming the Commission. |
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| | The Treaty of Maastricht or the European Union (1992) - The history of the European Union and European Citizenship |
| | The ratification of the Treaty of Maastricht by the national parliaments was brimmed with difficulties. | | | By Modifying the previous treaties -Paris, Rome and Single European Act-, the initial economic objective of the Community, building a common market, was outstripped and, for the first time, a distinctive vocation of political union was claimed. | | | The European Council, where decisions must be adopted unanimously, agrees the principles and general orientations of the CFSP. |
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| | The Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) - The history of the European Union and European Citizenship |
| | As a legal document, the Treaty of Amsterdam has as main objective to modify certain regulations of the Treaty of the European Union, the constituent treaties of the European Communities (Paris and Rome) and of some acts related to them. | | | The text of the treaty went on being quite complicated -it consists of three parts, one annex and thirteen protocols- and is not easily intelligible neither to citizens, nor, even, to legal, economic and political agents that should act according to its regulations. | | | The Treaty also provides the Union with a common security policy that covers all matters relating to its security, including the gradual formulation of a common defence policy. |
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| | European Disability Forum: Guide to the Amsterdam Treaty |
| | Furthermore, the broad reference to non-discrimination in the Treaty may result in the European Court of Justice recognising that the right not to be discriminated against applies to disabled people, as it has already recognised with regard to men and women (see chapter on general principles of Community law). | | | These Treaty articles can provide the legal basis for a directive which covers the United Kingdom, and which is identical in nature and scope to that already applying to the other Member States as a result of the Maastricht Agreement on Social Policy. | | | Because of the similarity of wording between Article 118a, in the unamended Treaty, and the new provisions in the chapter on social provisions, the Court of Justice is likely to continue to interpret the provisions on health and safety widely. |
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| | The European Union and The Maastricht Treaty. |
| | The Maastricht treaty on the economic and monetary union of the EU gives us a foundation for a single currency unit, and common economic and monetary policy, but the treaty alone will not guarantee a union. | | | According to the treaty, currencies are not allowed to fluctuate more than 2.5 percent on an upper and lower boundary of the ECU. A "Tube" effect has been created, in which currencies are revised when these are not able to stay within the limits. | | | The economic requirements that the individual nation states have to meet allow "considerable discretion".The nations that will not be able to adopt the single currency on purely economic grounds should be able to adopt it for political reasons. |
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| | Corporate Europe Observer 3-june 1999 |
| | One of the main aims of the IGC was to prepare the Union for the accession of new member states by a thorough revision of voting procedures and national representation in all EU institutions. | | | In case there were any reason for UNICE and the ERT to be dissatisfied with the new treaty, the other decisions made at the Amsterdam Summit should have made them jubilant, as they fulfill the corporate agenda to the fullest. | | | No concrete actions are outlined and there are no sanctions for governments not living up to the commitments of the chapter. |
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| | The Bruges Group |
| | The passage of the Maastricht Treaty, therefore, was legislative priority number one for the 1992—7 Parliament. | | | Whatever may be deduced from Major’s policy for lacking a consistent and coherent European strategy, it was successful in party political terms by demonstrating his ability as a party manager. | | | Predictably, this led to the first of the disciplinary measures against the Eurorebels when the Member of Parliament for Torbay, Rupert Allason, was deprived of the Whip. |
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| | EU Glossary: Q-Z |
| | From the legal point of view, the Treaty amends certain provisions of the EU Treaty, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related acts. | | | The Treaty of Amsterdam has formally enshrined the principles governing access to documents in Article 207 of the EC Treaty. | | | Ratification is when a state gives formal approval to abide by the terms of a treaty at international level. |
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| | European Union Anti-Racism Policy Reaches Turning Point |
| | The Maastricht Treaty, however, does not have a specific provision granting the EC legal authority to combat racism. | | | Although the Parliament deemed it essential to amend the Treaty, the Parliament has maintained steadfastly that a sufficient legal basis for action already exists within the EC Treaty. | | | Of all the European Union institutions, the European Parliament, which has a limited legislative role compared to the Commission and Council, has been at the forefront of the drive to amend the Maastricht Treaty. |
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| | Maastricht Treaty Title VI |
| | The Council, acting unanimously on the initiative of the Commission or a Member State, may decide to apply Article 100c of the Treaty establishing the European Community to action in areas referred to in Article K.1(1) to (6), and at the same time determine the relevant voting conditions relating to it. | | | (c) without prejudice to Article 220 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, draw up conventions which it shall recommend to the Member States for adoption in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. | | | Unless otherwise provided by such conventions, measures implementing them shall be adopted within the Council by a majority of two-thirds of the High Contracting Parties. |
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| | European Welfare States - Information and Resources |
| | From the Treaty of Rome to the TEU, social policy has progressed from lofty statements with no real power, to binding legal requirements and concrete policy measures developed by the European Union and interpreted by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). | | | Moreover, The Treaty of Rome allows the ECJ to interpret and expand the clauses dealing with social policy. | | | Although the Commission's defined role was formally limited to that of assisting member states and of offering advice, it acted as a shrewd political entrepreneur that often took advantage of its superior resources and better access to information. |
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| | The end of EMU: How Germany might leave |
| | The interpretation would have to rely on the versions of the Treaty in other languages: the author would be pleased to hear from someone with both the legal and the linguistic expertise. | | | As we will soon see, these will look and function just like money; but to avoid a breach of the Maastricht Treaty, they won’t actually be legal tender. | | | What is not widely known is that Germany could introduce an entire new currency, in an entirely orderly manner, without breaching the Maastricht Treaty. |
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| | The third pillar, often referred to as Title VI, represents a major conceptual leap forward by clearing the ground for legal integration in terms of immigration policy, policing, and customs cooperation. | | | Here I limit the summary to home and justice affairs and citizenship, while deferring treatment of the democratic deficit under the heading of identity politics. | | | Attempting to converge the member states’ widely diverging legal systems has also presented considerable legal complications. |
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| | The Maastricht Treaty Turns Ten Current Affairs Deutsche Welle 30.10.2003 |
| | In Germany, it was even sent to the constitutional court to determine whether it was compatible with the constitution. | | | The full text of the Treaty on European Union. | | | The court in the end voted in favor of the Treaty. |
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| | The Treaty of the European Union --- The Maastricht Treaty - Title 1 |
| | By this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties establish among themselves a European Union, hereinafter called "the Union". | | | Please read the terms under which this book is provided to you | | | The Treaty of the European Union --- The Maastricht Treaty |
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| | Eurotreaties - Text of Maastricht Treaty |
| | The Treaty is extremely important in that it introduced the terms and conditions for the introduction of the Single Currency and the development of the European Treaties by drawing up the Treaty on European Union. | | | Final Act and Declarations of the Maastricht Treaty | | | As can be seen, the Treaty is a series of amendments to the existing Treaties and not a Treaty in its own right. |
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| | A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --M-- |
| | To distinguish between the original document and the later version, it is sometimes convenient to call the first one the Maastricht Treaty, reserving the technically correct Treaty on European Union for the amended and consolidated text. | | | Nevertheless, it survived a second Danish referendum and a ruling by the German Constitutional Court to pass eventually into law, its obscure phraseology reflecting an uneasy compromise between integrationists and those who favoured a Community of voluntarily co-operating nation states. | | | The Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 and officially known as the Treaty on European Union (TEU), introduced several important additions and amendments to the Treaty of Rome and signalled an advance in European integration equalled only by the 1986 Single European Act. |
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| | BBC NEWS In Depth Euro-glossary Maastricht Treaty |
| | They now have the right to move and live in any EU state and may vote in European and local elections in any country. | | | In Germany it was sent to the constitutional court, which in the end voted for it. | | | It defined the three stages of EMU which eventually led to the single currency, and set out the convergence criteria or economic tests that member states have to pass. |
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| | FT.com - Special Reports / Euro |
| | Denmark's refusal to ratify the treaty is greeted with dismay in Brussels. | | | The Single European Act modifying the Treaty of Rome is signed, formalising political co-operation between the member states and including six new areas of competence, including monetary co-operation. | | | The Treaty elevated the project of European integration to a new and far more ambitious level by setting a firm date - January 1999 at the latest - for the replacement of national currencies by a single, shared currency, the euro. |
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| | Development cooperation after the Treaty of Maastricht |
| | The Treaty of Maastricht, which was signed by the EC member states at the beginning of 1992, is the first document to set forth the development cooperation objectives of the Community and its constituent members. | | | The Maastricht Treaty and the recommendations made by the NAR with regard to coherence and coor- dination involve new tasks for the European Commission, whose capacity is already limited and has often been criticised as inadequate. | | | The Minister had requested the NAR to give its views on how, after ratification, the articles of the Treaty might be interpreted and applied to enable the development cooperation policy of the European Community and its Member States to be more clearly defined. |
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| | Foreign Affairs - Europe After Maastricht - Walter Goldstein |
| | It may be difficult to negotiate amendments to the complex 250-page document, but the treaty will not win final acceptance in Britain and Germany without them. | | | The historic Maastricht treaty was to take the next step: to create a far-reaching economic and political union that might one day become the United States of Europe. | | | Third, the union treaty fell victim to the financial and trade wars waged between the strong and weak currencies of Europe, Japan and the United States. |
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| | Constitution - Ratification |
| | The subject of the debate in relation to the referendum on 2 June 1992, which resulted in a ‘no’ vote, was whether the Maastricht Treaty implied a supranational development of the Community. | | | After the adoption of the Edinburgh protocol another ratification debate in parliament became necessary, which consisted of a governmental proposal of three bills, namely the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, the acceptance of the Edinburgh protocol, and a law requiring a binding referendum. | | | Accommodating this party was seen as necessary by the government in order to convince the voters in a second referendum to vote in support of the treaty. |
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| | Political consequences of the Maastricht Treaty |
| | The Assembly considers that the Treaty on European Union signed in Maastricht on 7 February 1992 constitutes a major step in the progress of member states of the European Community towards union. | | | The entry into force of the Treaty on European Union will have political consequences not only for the Twelve but for all European states. | | | The Assembly invites the parliaments of member states to assess the consequences of the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty particularly with regard to : |
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| | The Amsterdam Treaty |
| | The Treaty of Amsterdam opened the way towards reinforced or closer cooperation but it failed to resolve institutional issues created by the forthcoming enlargement. | | | Enlargement towards the East plus several pending issues on the EU agenda prompted the negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam just four years after the conclusion of the Treaty of Maastricht. | | | It was signed on 2 October 1997 and came into force on 1 May 1999. |
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| | Financial Dictionary — Meaning for Maastricht Treaty |
| | A common legal infrastructure had been largely completed, citizens could take goods for personal use across borders without paying duty, road-freight was free of customs checks and most controls on the movement of capital had been removed. | | | Some changes, such as monetary unification, proved too difficult and were shelved, and other elements of a 'single market' failed to find quick or unanimous agreement. | | | Copyright Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited 100 Queen street, Melbourne 3000 (ABN 11 005 357 522), 1996-2006. |
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| | Europe after Maastricht |
| | It started with a bang: The signing of the Treaty on European Union at Maastricht in February 1992. | | | And the Maastricht provisions on a Common Security and Defense Policy have been shown up for what they are. | | | The deep irony is that the full circle has come on the ideological level, since in practice, Maastricht probably is an empowerment of the Member States and in at least some significant aspects (such as the legislative gags imposed on the Community in some of its new policies) a weakening of the Community. |
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| | The European Commission's Delegation to Jamaica: eu guide:transition |
| | Therefore, the expressions, the EC, European Community, will continue to be used, especially in certain documents of a legal character such as official acts adopted on the basis of the Treaty establishing the European Community. | | | The Treaty of the European Union, also known as the Maastricht Treaty, entered into force on 1 November 1993, following the ratification of the Treaty by all twelve Member States of the European Communities. | | | The Union as a whole is served by a single institutional framework, The former EC Council of Ministers is now called the Council of the European Union or EU Council. |
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| | The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: IGC, 1996-7. |
| | Return to EUROPEAN UNION: Treaties, Constitutional Documents, Other Important Documents. | | | Site is designed to facilitate access to relevant documents published by the European Union's institutions, Member States'governments and other bodies. | | | Items pertain to the InterGovernmental Conference which formally convened in Turin on March 29, 1996 and issued the Amsterdam Treaty in June, 1997. |
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| | Maastricht Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ratification of the treaty was fraught with difficulties in various states. | | | The Maastricht Treaty (formally, the Treaty on European Union) was signed on 7 February 1992 in Maastricht between the members of the European Community and entered into force on 1 November 1993, under the Delors Commission. | | | In the United Kingdom, ratification was done by Parliament, where the Maastricht Rebels nearly defeated John Major's government's policy on the matter. |
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| | Maastricht Treaty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maastricht Treaty |
| | Agreed in 1991 and signed in 1992, the treaty took effect on 1 November 1993 following ratification by member states. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Denmark rejected the treaty at first, and then accepted it, in national referendums in June 1992 and May 1993. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Maastricht Treaty |
| | Maastricht Treaty, treaty that created the European Union (EU). | | | This reworking resulted in the Treaty on European Union (also called the Maastricht Treaty). | | | The treaty was approved at Maastricht in The Netherlands by the heads of government... |
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| | If the case of the 14 year old had not arisen it is questionable whether we would be aware of it at all. | | | For this reason we will be voting NO to Maastricht. | | | On the most basic level this is a misrepresentation of the case. |
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| | The Treaty on European Union, known as the Maastricht Treaty, was signed at Maastricht, the Netherlands, on February 7, 1992. | | | The Maastricht Treaty includes specific references to environmental policy and sustainable development, in its Introduction of Signatories, in Article B of its Common Provisions, and in a Declaration on Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Community Measures within its final act. | | | The complete text of the Maastricht Treaty is available here. |
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| | Module 2 |
| | Both the Maastricht Treaty and the SEA were ambitious projects that shifted the focus of the EU from economic to political issues. | | | Ratification of the controversial treaty proved problematic in several member states, notably Denmark and France. | | | The three pillars call for different decision-making structures, with a declining role for supranational institutions (Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Justice) and an increasing role for intergovernmental institutions (Council of Ministers, European Council) as one moves from the EC pillar to the JHA pillar. |
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| | A View from Maastricht - 1 |
| | When you joined us we were discussing the European Union and the Treaty signed at Randwijk. | | | But the idea of a united Europe and no more war, ever, is irresistible. | | | The Maastricht flags and the European Union flags fluttered a brief, careless farewell as we left the square. |
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Misjudging Maastricht |
| | The treaty was a big step toward the creation of a European superpower which Europhiles hoped would be equal to or greater than the United States. | | | Maastricht is a prime example of how easily leaders can lose touch with their societies, even under democratic rule. | | | They have also charged that this campaign is part of a "secret pact" between the French and German governments to go ahead with Maastricht over the objections of their European partners, not to mention substantial sections of their own populations. |
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| | Denmark has already voted NO on the treaty and wants the treaty delayed until their objections have been met(sometime in 1993) In the same way, Britain will not endorse the treaty until it has been reworked and is satisfactory to the Danes. | | | Under the Maastricht Treaty one body will govern and regulate both economic and political concerns. | | | The military aspect of the unification treaty is merely a an outdated cold war era stipulation, which may have been advantageous a decade ago but is now obsolete. |
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| | BBC NEWS In Depth Euro-glossary Amsterdam Treaty |
| | UK objections at Maastricht had meant that the social chapter had never passed into law. | | | Amsterdam aimed to make the EU more democratic in preparation for its eastwards enlargement. | | | In the Council of Ministers, unanimity was replaced with qualified majority voting on employment, social exclusion, customs and data protection amongst other issues. |
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| | mwtb.org I have read a lot in the news about the Maastricht Treaty. What is this treaty and what significance, if any, ... |
| | The Maastricht (mahs'-trikt) Treaty is an accord signed by twelve European countries in Maastricht, Netherlands, on February 7, 1992. | | | This treaty marks another step on the road to that world power which the Bible declares will be present upon the earth after the rapture of the church to heaven (Revelation 13,17). | | | A few years ago it was reported by USA TODAY that "some leaders in the European Community envision an eventual federal system leading to a powerful United States of Europe." This treaty, when fully implemented, will enable that vision to become a reality. |
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| | EUABC A dictionary on words related to the EU |
| | The Treaty of Maastricht, also known as the Treaty on European Union (TEU), paved the way for the further European integration, in particular by introducing the Economic and Monetary Union. | | | By modifying the previous treaties - Paris, Rome, and the Single European Act - a political union was proclaimed and the EC changed its name to the EU. | | | It represents the biggest development of the treaties so far. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Maastricht (Benelux Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | In 1992, the Treaty of European Union (known as the Maastricht Treaty) was signed following a summit conference there. | | | The treaty was an important step in the continuing integration of the countries of the European Union. | | | It later fell into French hands during the wars of the 17th and 18th cent., notably in 1673 and 1794. |
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| | The Daily Star - Business Articles - Turkey to fulfil Maastricht Treaty in 5 years |
| | The current account deficit will be four percent this year and will be financed "without difficulty" this year and next, he went on, while warning that 2006 could be difficult, in which cases there could be sales tax rises on imported cars. | | | Turkey to fulfil Maastricht Treaty in 5 years | | | PARIS: Turkey will fulfill all the criteria of the Maastricht Treaty in five years in its bid to gain acceptance to the EU, the country's economy minister said in a newspaper interview published here Wednesday. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Maastricht |
| | Maastricht, Treaty of, popular name for the Treaty on European Union, approved at Maastricht in the Netherlands by the 12 heads of government of the... | | | Clauses in the treaty relating to foreigners’ electoral rights and... | | | Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies ratified the Maastricht Treaty in July 1992. |
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| | BW Online November 28, 2001 Commentary: The Maastricht Treaty Needs a Makeover |
| | So the treaty not only made signatories clean up their fiscal acts, it also gave the ECB just one mission: maintaining price stability. | | | In fact, it has been under control for five years in most euro-zone countries and is forecast to fall below 1% for the bloc by the end of 2002. | | | The agreement, crafted to rein in inflation, must now free the euro zone to restart its stalled economies |
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| | From 19-04 to 23-04 in Leuven & Brussels, B. Three Times The Charm | | | From 20-04 to 24-04 in Maastricht, Liège and Aachen, NL. |
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