Word: maastricht
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Braving the labor unrest, Gonzalez seems determined to wrestle Spain's economy into line with inflation and budget-deficit targets set out in the E.C.'s December agreement at Maastricht. Despite growing doubts elsewhere in Europe, a majority of Spaniards still support the treaty, and Gonzalez has not wavered since he told parliament this spring, "For a country like ours, historically isolated, no effort should be spared to board this train. Our well-being and our stability depend on our success in adapting to the construction of Europe." The restructuring of Spain's noncompetitive heavy industry is under...
...eyes of the European Community focused anxiously on Ireland, as voters went to the polls to decide whether or not to back the Maastricht treaty and its call for deeper economic and political integration into the E.C. The Irish vote acquired special importance after Denmark rejected the treaty's ratification in its own referendum three weeks ago. Had Ireland also opposed the Maastricht pact, it almost surely would have been dead, and the Community's greater integration, including the creation of a single European currency and common foreign and defense policies, would have suffered a setback that would have taken...
...governments now hope that the Irish vote will lead to a positive result in a French referendum to be held in the fall. But nothing is certain in France, where voters could well use Maastricht to rebuke the increasingly unpopular President Francois Mitterrand. Eventually, all 12 E.C. members, Denmark included, must ratify the treaty before it can take force...
Robinson went on to become one of Ireland's foremost international lawyers and a politician known for her secular sophistication. Now as the nation's first woman President, she has become a symbol of its European aspirations, as reflected in its resounding vote of approval last week for the Maastricht treaty and integration into the new European Union. But most important, given the largely ceremonial nature of her office, she has become a symbol of what made that vote possible: Ireland's renewed self-confidence and national pride...
Seeking to minimize the damage, Denmark's 11 E.C. partners left the door open to the country's eventual reconsideration of the treaty. Their strategy: to salvage the Maastricht framework while applying pressure on the Danes to change their minds, perhaps in a second plebiscite that could be held as late as 1993 if the treaty's current ratification deadline is extended beyond December of this year...