Russians so they can sit on their duffs in Maastricht and do currency reform?
Jean Bruijnzeels, an international accounts manager for Maastricht city council, says the event changed the place.
And nobody forgets that the French approved the Maastricht treaty by only a bee's whisker.
As junior finance minister from 1990 to 1993 he was instrumental in drafting the Maastricht Treaty.
These were the pressures behind the Maastricht criteria and, later, the stability pact (see article).
Of the 17 eurozone countries, only Finland and Luxembourg consistently complied with the Maastricht parameters.
The Maastricht Treaty (Article 121) fixed numerical targets for states seeking accession to the European Union.
He contributed little to the last-minute horse-trading over the Amsterdam treaty the successor to Maastricht last June.
The Maastricht treaty restricted the commission's role in foreign policy and in justice and home affairs.
Mr Kohl would do well not to overemphasise this when selling the Maastricht deal back home.
There is even a prime-time television programme, Maastricht Italia, devoted to extolling the euro.
The public-sector deficit has been trimmed in line with Maastricht requirements for the euro.
None of this much concerned Mr Kohl at the time of the Maastricht treaty, however.
They got some of what they wanted at Maastricht, and are still hoping for more.
In theory, the Maastricht treaty gives an answer: the Western European Union, Europe's defence club.
Ad hoc gestures of flexibility notably, the opt-outs written into the Maastricht treaty will not suffice.
They could detour the Maastricht roadblock simply by authorizing private banks to issue their own euro notes.
Governments could once force women to take only their husband's nationality, says Maarten Vink of Maastricht University.
The model is the opt-out from the social chapter that John Major secured in the Maastricht treaty.
Such numbers might be too big even for the relatively generous wiggle-room offered in the Maastricht treaty.
The rest of Europe woke up to this when the Danes said No to Maastricht in 1992.
In France a majority of those who voted for the Maastricht treaty would not do so again.
He may have voted against the Maastricht treaty, but so did many others in the party's mainstream.
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Oddly, for a private client business, the bank is setting up call centres in Maastricht and Edinburgh.
True, Mr Blair is to end Mr Major's opt-out from Maastricht's social chapter, which produces common workplace legislation.
Italy has indeed proved supple enough to limbo its way under the Maastricht bars and join the euro.
GDP, a deal higher than the 60% figure the Maastricht treaty deemed sustainable.
Dr Cathelijne van Heteren from University Hospital Maastricht said the study showed foetuses had both short and long-term memories.
As European leaders work towards a way of resolving matters, the name of Maastricht is as controversial as ever.
This is the deal that France signed up to at Maastricht with the creation of the Single European Market.
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