The social chapter of the Maastricht treaty deserved support on its own merits. |
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The Maastricht package was a political bargain, which deliberately left for later negotiation many of the wider ramifications of monetary union. |
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In protocols to the Maastricht Treaty, the UK and Denmark have secured the right to permanently remain outside the monetary union. |
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Because it is illegal to grow marijuana in the Netherlands, police in Maastricht spend a great deal of time removing home-based grow operations. |
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If he funks this one then his government will unravel and we will be back to John Major, the Exchange Rate Mechanism and Maastricht. |
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His leadership in directing a diversionary force at Maastricht allowed the king's main army to take the town. |
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The history of Maastricht goes back to approximately 50 B.C., when the Romans built a settlement by the main road near a ford in the river. |
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At Maastricht we won the opt-out which kept the pound and the opt-out from the social chapter, which labour threw away. |
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He also voted against the pro-EU Maastricht treaty, only to transform himself later into a rabid Europhile. |
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Labour is a trade union party so it was taken for granted it would fully implement the social chapter of the Maastricht Treaty. |
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It will be more like John Major's task of suppressing the Maastricht rebels, or Jim Callaghan's in managing a fissile Labour party. |
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In retrospect, the 1991 Maastricht Treaty can be seen as the high-water mark of federalist ambition. |
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The Bologna process needs to be coherent and to chime with the Maastricht declaration on the establishment of a European qualification framework. |
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Eurocontrol runs only the Maastricht centre, doing its pitiful best to choreograph the other parts of the system. |
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Whatever else they said or did not say, the French cried no to budget stringency of the sort the Maastricht plan demands. |
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This, it will be recalled, was included in a halfhearted and limited way in the Maastricht Treaty. |
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In such a situation, Latvia risks contravening one of the criteria set out by the Maastricht Treaty. |
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Any citizen assumed to have an understanding of the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam could not possibly have difficulty comprehending that. |
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The Maastricht indicators are so suffocating, it is as if we were giving a glass of water to a person whose neck we have put in a noose. |
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Does this not reward bad behaviour and betray the principles of the Maastricht Treaty? |
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I wonder, by the way, why these national contributions were abrogated in Maastricht. |
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According to the Maastricht Treaty, for areas that do not fall under the exclusive competence of the EU the subsidiarity principle should be applied. |
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Also, was the perspective of a Maastricht criterion better in 1999 in an Italy indebted to the hilt, than it would be today in Vilnius? |
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It however became apparent in the course of the 2006 that Estonia would not be able to comply with the Maastricht convergence criteria in time. |
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In fact, since the Treaty of Maastricht, the Union has been committed to including environmental protection in all its policies. |
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As regards CFMU operating functions, FRANCE preferred to keep discussions separate from the Maastricht UAC staff reform. |
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Hence the importance of building a new international economic model, according to Shyama Ramani, Professor at the University of Maastricht. |
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This method of building up the trans-European network, as introduced by the Maastricht Treaty, has yet to yield all its fruits. |
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But now «the word is back in the Maastricht church», for the Selexy booksellers have now taken up their residence in the church. |
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The Single Act, followed by the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam, have served to confirm this political tendency at the highest level. |
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The Maastricht Treaty gave the Community the powers and instruments to establish and develop the transEuropean network. |
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Denmark, for instance, voted against the Maastricht Treaty in June 1992, and later only a marginal majority of French voters confirmed the accession to the Treaty. |
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The debate on the Maastricht Treaty tore apart the last Tory government. |
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The decision at Maastricht to adopt a common currency was momentous. |
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The issues that ran aground in Nice are the same issues that had previously floundered in Amsterdam, and many of them have been on hold since Maastricht. |
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Two of the 16 countries using the currency have had to be bailed out, despite the ban on such rescues in 1992's Maastricht treaty that created Europe's monetary union. |
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Many hoped all along that its exchange-rate mechanism, which linked currencies in a semi-fixed grid, would be transformed into a full monetary union as indeed the Maastricht treaty eventually decreed. |
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In line with Article 3b of the European Maastricht Treaty, subsidiarity means that decisions in a multilevel system of governance should be made as close to the people as possible. |
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As far as these two essential areas are concerned, ten years of applying the Maastricht Treaty have confirmed both the absolute need for joint action and, unfortunately, the inefficacy of the intergovernmental procedures. |
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The Maastricht Treaty is not very specific on the manner in which it must actually be accountable for the fulfilment of its mission with regard to national representatives. |
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The linguistic limit between French and Dutch was recorded in the early '60's, from Kortrijk to Maastricht. |
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Industry is still biding its time, waiting for public funding, while the public authorities in turn plead Maastricht criteria, empty pockets and the like. |
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Similar operations against the bridges in the Netherlands, at Maastricht, failed. |
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The 1992 Maastricht Treaty introduced the concept of European citizenship, which comes in addition to national citizenships. |
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Maastricht was a major disaster for the Protestant cause and the Dutch began to turn on William of Orange. |
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Citizenship of the Union was established by the Maastricht Treaty, which inserted the current Article 17 into the Treaty establishing the European Community. |
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The Maastricht Treaty was ratified in 1993, and created the European Union. |
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I would remind you once again, in this connection, that the Treaty of Maastricht states that we need a monetary policy that guarantees the stability of the currency. |
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The treaties of Amsterdam and Maastricht had granted the European Union the opportunity to undertake activities in the cultural field complementary to those of the actual member states. |
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Most visitors end up in Amsterdam, but for a real Dutch treat Maastricht can't be beaten. |
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Over the past 15 years there has been a restaurant revolution in Maastricht and I was treated to some top nosh at Bokes resaurant. |
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Finally, the third category of measures covers the adaptations required to make legal texts conform to the Treaty of Maastricht or the new financial environment. |
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We have been suffering from low spirits, the depression that comes from being stuck in fog, with the architecture of our common future shrouded in the doubts and uncertainties of the Maastricht debate. |
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The Maastricht Treaty established the European Union in 1993 and introduced European citizenship. |
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In November 1672, he took his army to Maastricht to threaten the French supply lines. |
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However, after the Treaty of Maastricht, Parliament gained a much bigger role. |
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Maastricht brought in the codecision procedure, which gave it equal legislative power with the Council on Community matters. |
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A core of Eurosceptic MPs under Major used the small Conservative majority in Parliament to oppose Government policy on the Maastricht Treaty. |
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A prominent goal of the EU since its creation by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 is establishing and maintaining a single market. |
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Thus, European Union citizens were given voting rights in local elections by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. |
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The Maastricht Treaty built upon the Single European Act and the Solemn Declaration on European Union in the creation of the European Union. |
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The Maastricht Treaty transformed the European Community into the European Union. |
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In 1992, the Conservative government under John Major ratified it, against the opposition of his backbench Maastricht Rebels. |
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In gaining this qualification, it has competed with the city of Maastricht. |
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It also confirms the capitalist, federalist and militarist integration of Europe enshrined in the Treaties of Maastricht and Nice, which the draft Treaty of Lisbon wishes to take even further. |
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When the position of Ombudsman was created by the Treaty of Maastricht, we were at an important crossroads between a basically economic Union and an encouragingly political Union. |
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The Parliament also has other powers of general supervision, mainly granted by the Maastricht Treaty. |
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In order to devalorize some pagan cults venerating animals of the forest, this miniature tells how St Amand, bishop of Maastricht and evangelist, constrained the bear, wich devoured the mule, to carry his luggages. |
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After the Treaties of Rome, the Single European Act and the Treaty of Maastricht, the Treaty of Amsterdam now guarantees an assurance for the sustainability and self-preservation of the European Union. |
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Bishop Hubert, his successor, had his relics repatriated to the place of his martyrdom and transferred the seat of the bishopric from Maastricht to Liège. |
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According to the Maastricht Treaty, each current member state and the European Parliament must agree to any enlargement. |
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A similar proposal of the city of Maastricht failed last year to obtain the support of Dutch Parliament, when the VVD redrew her support on the very last moment, and there was no longer a majority. |
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Yet as far as the common foreign policy is concerned, we have only the vaguest of vague outlines, given that it was decreed in 1992 by Title Five of the Treaty of Maastricht. |
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The Maastricht Treaty created a single currency for most EU members. |
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The Community later became the European Union in 1993 by virtue of the Maastricht Treaty, and established standards for new entrants so their suitability could be judged. |
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The founding treaty, the 1957 Treaty of Rome, and all subsequent treaties, such as the Maastricht Treaty, Nice Treaty, and Lisbon Treaty, are the main primary legislation. |
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After the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, these institutions became those of the European Union, though limited in some areas due to the pillar structure. |
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The NLCS study received approval by the Medical Ethical Committees of the University Hospital Maastricht and TNO Quality of Life, Zeist, The Netherlands. |
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Upon the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, the EEC was renamed the European Community to reflect that it covered a wider range than economic policy. |
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