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Negotiations in the two parallel Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and on Political Union began in January 1991 under Luxembourg chairmanship, with the aim of concluding under the Netherlands Presidency at the European Council in Maastricht in December 1991, to allow time for a Treaty on European Union to be ratified by national governments before the European Single Market was launched on 1 January 1993.
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Middelaar, L. van, (2012) Le Passage à L’Europe, histoire d’un commencement (Paris: Gallimard), p. 296
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Caton, V. (2015). 1991: The Maastricht Negotiations. In: France and the Politics of European Economic and Monetary Union. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409171_4
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