‘Maastricht.’ In 1991, the cartoonist Behrendt sees the route leading towards ‘Maastricht’ and the treaty on European Union as a long one, fraught with pitfalls.
‘The home straight.’ The cartoonist, Murschetz, emphasises the difficulties in finalising the Treaty on European Union which will be signed in Maastricht on 7 February 1992.
On 26 April 1990, following the 55th Franco-German consultations at the Élysée Palace, French President François Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl express their views on political union in Europe and reaffirm the efforts of their two countries in that direction.
On 27 November 1991, the European Commission emphasises the fondamental implications of draft treaties on Political Union and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
On 7 February 1992 in Maastricht, the Foreign and Finance Ministers of the 12 Member States of the European Communities sign the Treaty on European Union.
On 7 February 1992, Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, Portuguese Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, delivers an address in which he emphasises the political implications of the Treaty on European Union (EU), signed that day in Maastricht by the Twelve.
In 1992, the Luxembourg Government publishes a booklet explaining the main provisions of the Treaty signed in Maastricht on 7 February 1992 by the Twelve.
Le 7 février 1992, lors de la cérémonie de signature à Maastricht du traité sur l'Union européenne, Egon Klepsch, président du Parlement européen, décrit les nouvelles perspectives qui s'ouvrent aux citoyens des Douze.
