<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></div>
<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">THE MAASTRICHT TREATY </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MAASTRICHT </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">7 FEBRUARY 1992</span></div>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">... </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TITLE I </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">COMMON PROVISIONS </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ARTICLE A </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties establish among themselves a European </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Union, hereinafter called ‘the Union’. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This Treaty marks a new stage in the process of <b>creating an ever closer union among </b></span></div>
<div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizen. </b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Union shall be founded on the European Communities, supplemented by the </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">policies and forms of co-operation established by this Treaty. Its task shall be to </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">organize, in a manner demonstrating consistency and solidarity, relations between the </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Member States and between their peoples. </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><h2 class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 1px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; clear: both; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">De Griekse premier George Papandreou heeft dus ergens ook wel een punt !!</span></h2></div><div><span style=""></span>Waarom hebben de anderen zich dan zo laten verrassen? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Henk Elegeert</div><div><br></div>