| SUMMARY: |
On November 1, 2023, it was three decades since the entry into force of the
Maastricht Treaty that established the European Union. The project of
founding this organisation was widely debated in previous decades. After
the Paris Summit of 1974, the prospect of such an organisation seemed
closer to completion but still too timidly assumed by the European leaders
to materialise. An important step was achieved in 1979 when the first direct
vote for the European Parliament took place. That can be considered the
first concrete gesture in the sense of the democratisation of European construction.
Beyond the entire institutional architecture and the clarification
of the community decision-making mechanism, the Treaty of Maastricht
introduced the citizenship of the European Union. |
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