Exactly twenty-five years after the Maastricht Treaty, the Limburg capital invited prominent Europeans to return to the birthplace of the modern European Union and the euro. Participants at EU & ME included Jean Claude Juncker (President of the European Commission), Martin Schulz (President of the European Parliament), Jeroen Dijsselbloem (Dutch Minister of Finance and President of the Eurogroup), Herman van Rompuy (Former President of the European Council), George Papaconstantinou (former minister of Finance of Greece) and Gordon Bajnai (former Prime Minister of Hungary).