The documentary ‘Het Verdrag van Maastricht, 25 jaar later’ (The Treaty of Maastricht, 25 years later) premiered last Thursday in Maastricht. King’s Commissioner, Theo Bovens, and Mayor of Maastricht, Annemarie Penn-te Strake, were also presented with the first print of the identically-titled book. The documentary and the book were produced by journalists Jo Cortenraedt and Maaten van Laarhoven in commemoration of the 25 years anniversary of the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, on 7 February 1992. In the film and the book, Jean-Claude Juncker, Martin Schulz, Pascal Lamy, Frans Timmermans, Frits Bolkestein, Wim Kok, Ruud Lubbers, Theo Waigel, other politicians and insiders at the time give their vision on the meaning of the Maastricht Treaty
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