{"id":7516,"date":"2022-02-21T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2022-02-21T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:58:13","slug":"one-look-back-to-maastricht-as-an-obligation-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/one-look-back-to-maastricht-as-an-obligation-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"One look back to Maastricht as an obligation for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">The milestones for the today\u2018s structure of the EU and for the implementation of euro<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>were founded with the signature of the Maastricht Treaty<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>on February 7th, 1992. The Treaty altered three former European treaties and created the European Union.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From the point of the actual discussion about the European future it makes sense to go back for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Maastricht Treaty defined such structure of the European Union,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>which Austria joined<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>in 1995. The new union, based on three former associations, brought with it several novelties. The implementation of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the euro and related<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>so called \u201eMaastricht Criteria\u201c obliged member countries to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>severe financial discipline. The competences regarding economic and fiscal policies expanded to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the common European level with the implementation of mutual foreign and security policies and the stronger cooperation in the home affairs and legislative fields.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Maastricht Treaty is the milestone of the European integration in spite of several other treaties, which were signed in the following years.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Then<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>was the European citizenship established, which made equal to a certain extent the EU citizens in other EU countries with domestic citizens. On the institutional<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>level the role of the EU Parliament as a directly elected representation of EU citizens in relation to the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>member countries grew significantly.<\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milestones for the today\u2018s structure of the EU and for the implementation of euro\u00a0 were founded with the signature of the Maastricht Treaty\u00a0 on February 7th, 1992. The Treaty altered three former European treaties and created the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9000709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}