European Integration in the 1980s: on the Way to Maastricht?
Journal: Journal of European Integration History
Year: 2013

the fusing of the two Germanys, and the birth of the single currency, are intimately intertwined. If unification had not happened, it is highly unlikely that France would have been able to persuade [German Chancellor] Kohl to agree the EMU timetable to replace the D-Mark by the Euro'. 1 This article does not seek to reject entirely the link between the Maastricht Treaty and the geo-political revolution of 1989-91. As other contributors to this special issue will make clear, the intra-European po