IT WAS INEVITABLE that the Maastricht treaty on European union would run into difficulty. The pact was premature in conception and too ambitious to survive intact. It had been signed in December 1991 when a mood of Europhoria held sway. With spirits boosted by a surge of economic growth the 12-nation European Commu nity (ec) pledged to build a lasting union. It was to be the successor to both the Common Market launched in 1958 and
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Walter Goldstein (1992) studied this question.