Negotiating the Maastricht Treaty
Journal: Journal of European Integration History
Year: 2013

Maastricht" means the end of a major struggle on the monetary union which had started at the Hague summit in December 1969 and which had been intensified since 1984 by French pressure against German reluctance. The French had several reasons to urge that such a union should be achieved: first, they saw it as a necessary element of a policy of economic growth on the European level; second, they strove for independence from the erratic movements of the dollar and the US policy of interest; third t