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The 28 pages that link to Maastricht Treaty, each with the reason it gives.

• European UnionRelated: It transformed integration from an economic community into a broader union.

• European integrationBroader topic: It marked the shift from primarily economic cooperation toward a broader political union.

• European ParliamentRelated: Co-decision marked a major expansion of Parliament’s legislative authority.

• European CommissionRelated: It reshaped the Union whose executive and legislative processes the Commission serves.

• Treaty of RomeBroader topic: It transformed the communities built on the Treaty of Rome into a broader union.

• EuroRelated: It committed participating states to a path toward adopting the euro.

• European Economic CommunityRelated: It transformed the EEC into the European Community within a newly created European Union.

• European Central BankRelated: It provided the legal framework for creating the ECB and introducing the euro.

• EurozoneRelated: It set convergence criteria and a timetable for introducing the euro.

• EuroscepticismRelated: Its deeper political commitments intensified opposition to the direction of integration.

• Helmut KohlBroader topic: Kohl helped negotiate the treaty and supported its monetary-union commitments.

• Single European ActRelated: It built on the Act’s integration momentum while creating a broader union and new policy structures.

• Council of the European UnionRelated: It formalized the Council's role within the newly established European Union.

• European federalismBroader topic: It deepened common governance while retaining a major role for national governments.

• Treaty of LisbonRelated: Lisbon later abolished the pillar structure created by Maastricht.

• European identityBroader topic: Its citizenship provisions explicitly connected political membership with a European status.

• European Monetary SystemRelated: It translated the EMS’s integration project into commitments to create a single currency.

• Franco-German reconciliationRelated: The partnership helped negotiate a deeper union amid debate over reunified Germany's place in Europe.

• Trans-European Transport NetworkRelated: It gave the EU a treaty foundation for developing trans-European infrastructure networks.

• Treaty of Paris (1951)Related: It built a wider union on institutions and cooperation developed through earlier treaties.

• Economic and Monetary Union of the European UnionRelated: It defined the convergence criteria and institutional steps toward the euro.

• Jacques DelorsRelated: Delors’s plans for monetary union helped shape the treaty’s economic provisions.

• Low CountriesBroader topic: It was signed in the Dutch city of Maastricht, underscoring the region’s role in integration.

• Ruud LubbersRelated: Lubbers’s government negotiated the treaty, which was signed during his final term.

• Dutch guilderRelated: Its monetary-union plan led the Netherlands to replace the guilder with the euro.

• History of the European UnionRelated: It transformed the communities into a broader political union.

• James GoldsmithRelated: The treaty’s ratification and consequences for British sovereignty became the Referendum Party’s central issue.

• Poul SchlüterRelated: The treaty triggered a Danish political crisis during Schlüter’s premiership.