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No euro without solidarity

How different the mood was twenty five years ago, when the Maastricht Treaty made Europe into the European Union and the euro into the ultimate symbol of fraternity that would hold the continent together. Today, nothing is left of the euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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15 March 2017By Mieke Hees

Celebrating and updating the Treaty

Donald Trump is set to become president of the United States thanks to a democratically enabled rebellion against the established order. This is the unexpected backdrop to the commemoration of 25 years of the Maastricht Treaty. Without doubt, it forces the EU to take better account of the grievances of some of its citizens. But the EU has other vulnerabilities too, such as the erosion of democracy in some Eastern European countries and increasing corruption in Southern Europe.

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15 December 2016By Jo Ritzen

Time to rebuild the European House

Criticism is nothing new. Some people once feared further integration because they saw the ‘European project’ as a Catholic invention that would eventually put paid to the Calvinistic north. Others fretted that the political Big Boys would ride roughshod over the smaller countries, or eyed Brussels suspiciously as the capital of Big Business. There was always something. Still, things have never been as bad as they are now. With criticism is coming from all angles, left and right, the prevailing sentiment can be summed up in a single word: anti-Europe.

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13 December 2016By Kees Boonman

Europe must dare to let go

How different the mood was twenty five years ago, when the Maastricht Treaty made Europe into the European Union and the euro into the ultimate symbol of fraternity that would hold the continent together. Today, nothing is left of the euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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2 December 2016By Michel Brouwers

Celebrating the treaty appropriately

Despite the problems facing the EU, there’s plenty of reason to celebrate the birth of the EU as a political and economic entity twenty-five years ago. And in Maastricht, no less. But the celebration should include a healthy dose of self-reflection on how to proceed from here. Because if we fail to reflect on the problems and the necessary solutions, the EU may not be around to celebrate the next twenty-five years – or even the next ten.

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18 November 2016By Jo Ritzen

The quarter life crisis of the European Union

When you become 25 years old you hit some sort of existential point in your life. You’re still young, though not as young as you might think you are, and are virtually standing on the doorstep of the rest of your adult life. But the realization that I might be getting old really hit me when I figured out the age of the EU. Or better: the European Union as we know it since the Maastricht Treaty. Yes, we can both celebrate existing a quarter century this year.

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13 September 2016By Clemens Labermont
Patricia Senge

What the European Union means to me

Questioning what the European Union (EU) means to me was raised to a different level when I woke up this morning. It is the 24th of June 2016 – Britain decided to leave the EU and the explosiveness of this decision remains yet to be unfolded.

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24 June 2016By Patricia Senge
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  • No euro without solidarity
    15 March 2017
  • Celebrating and updating the Treaty
    15 December 2016
  • Time to rebuild the European House
    13 December 2016
  • Europe must dare to let go
    2 December 2016
  • Celebrating the treaty appropriately
    18 November 2016
  • The quarter life crisis of the European Union
    13 September 2016
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