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	Maastricht Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maastricht Treaty (formally, the Treaty on European Union) was signed on 7 February 1992 in Maastricht between the members of the European Community and entered into force on 1 November 1993, under the Delors Commission.
		The Maastricht treaty was signed on February 7, 1992 at Maastricht in the Netherlands, where the final negotiations had taken place during December 1991.
		In the United Kingdom, ratification was done by Parliament, where the Maastricht Rebels nearly defeated John Major's government's policy on the matter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maastricht_treaty (582 words)

	Encyclopedia: Maastricht Rebels
		In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Maastricht Rebels were MPs of the then governing Conservative Party who refused to support the government of John Major in a House of Commons vote to secure ratification by the United Kingdom of the Maastricht treaty (Treaty on European Union).
		It was thus only by the Speaker's casting vote that the Government won (the Speaker casting her vote in accordance with the 1867 decision of Mr Speaker Denison not to create a majority where none exists), to date the most recent occasion on which such a vote has been called for.
		Other rebels were: Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body (born 18 May 1927) is a British politician, and was Conservative MP for Billericay from 1955 to 1959, for Holland-with-Boston from 1966 to 1997, and for Boston and Skegness from 1997 until he stood down at the 2001 general election.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maastricht-Rebels (2207 words)

	Study Abroad: Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies
		Maastricht became such a thriving center of commerce that around 1350 a new wall had to be built around the city, doubling the area enclosed and making new building possible.
		Geographically Maastricht should have become part of Belgium, but the garrison under General Dibbets remained loyal to the House of Orange and in 1839, to the disgruntlement of the Belgians, the province of Limburg was partitioned, Maastricht remaining in Dutch hands.
		Maastricht was occupied by the Germans in 1940 and was the first city in The Netherlands to be liberated in 1944.
	www.cmsu.edu /mcts/index.cfm?pg=trvl_maastricht.htm (2101 words)

	Maastricht on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An episcopal center from 382 to 721, Maastricht has the oldest church in the Netherlands, the Cathedral of St. Servatius, founded in the 6th cent.
		In 1284 the city came under the dual domination of the dukes of Brabant and the prince-bishop of Liège.
		The Spanish under Alessandro Farnese captured it (1579) from the Dutch rebels during the revolt of the Netherlands and massacred a large part of the population.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Maastric.asp (696 words)

	Encyclopedia: Maastricht Treaty
		Maastricht (Limburgish and city dialect: Mestreech; French: Maestricht) is a municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg.
		The Common Foreign and Security Policy or CFSP was established as the second of the three pillars of the European Union in the Maastricht treaty of 1992, and further defined and broadened in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997.
		The Treaty of Nice is a treaty adopted in Nice by the European Council to amend the two founding treaties of the European Union: the Treaty on European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, which introduced the Euro and the 3-pillar structure of the EU; the Treaty of Rome, which established...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maastricht-Treaty (2183 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Duncan Smith boasts of disloyal voting tactics over Maastricht
		Mr Duncan Smith's opposition to the Maastricht treaty lasted from the moment it was introduced into the Commons in November 1992 to July 1993 when Mr Major was forced to place his job on the line to protect the measure.
		The rebels were spotted openly colluding with Labour whips to try to frustrate the bill.
		The rebels fell into line after the former prime minister threatened to call a general election if he was defeated.
	www.guardian.co.uk /euro/story/0,11306,607554,00.html (700 words)

	Maastricht treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The three pillar structure was developed to isolate the traditional Community responsibilities the area of the economy (the Community from the new competencies in the areas foreign policy and military matters (the CFSP and criminal matters (the JHA pillar).
		The Maastricht treaty was signed on February 7 1992 at Maastricht in the Netherlands where the final negotiations had taken during December 1991.
		In the United Kingdom ratification was done by Parliament where the Maastricht Rebels nearly defeated John Major 's government's policy on the matter.
	www.freeglossary.com /Maastricht_treaty (626 words)

	Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Op vrijdag 28 december 2001 was het precies vijftig jaar geleden dat Rector Jos Cremers te Maastricht overleed.
		Als stichter van het Natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg en als oprichter van het Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht vervulde Rector Cremers een bijzondere rol in de beginjaren van de natuurbescherming en het natuuronderzoek in Limburg.
		De grafsteen van Rector Cremers is een grote zwerfkei, die fraai en bijna rebels contrasteert met de strakke zerken zoals we die doorgaans tegenkomen op begraafplaatsen.
	www.nhmmaastricht.nl /nederlands/nieuws/nieuwsarchief03.htm (145 words)

	Maastricht, Netherlands - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Under the Maastricht Treaty which created the eurozone, their debt should not exceed 60.0% of output or be falling consistently towards this ratio.
		Speaking in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands, she said human trafficking should be treated as a serious violation of human rights.
		Maastricht 12 years ago and the single currency four years ago were the flagship victories for the integrationist advocates of "deepening".
	www.4newz.net /world/am/Maastricht.html (11652 words)

	Bill Cash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is known as a strong eurosceptic and at one point was ringleader of a rebellion over the Maastricht treaty that almost brought down John Major's government.
		He is president of the euro-sceptic European Foundation which was created during the Maastricht RebelsMaastricht Rebellion/, the funding for which he organised.
		After he became leader, fellow rebel Iain Duncan Smith gave him the post of shadow Attorney General in 2001, and in 2003 was made a spokesman on Department for Constitutional AffairsConstitutional Affairs/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Bill_Cash (459 words)

	Maastricht Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founded: November 1, 1993 (Treaty on European Union (Maastricht Treaty) establishing the EU entered into force).
		Davis censors Maastricht and Europe Minister roles from campaign...
		This is evident in the wording of the Maastricht Treaty and other EU documents, which speak of the necessity of establishing the independence of the Euro Bank.
	www.wikiverse.org /maastricht-treaty (658 words)

	Maastricht Treaty - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What Maastricht Means for Business: Opportunities and Regulations in the Ec Internal Market
		The Maastricht Treaty on European Union: Legal Complexity and Political Dynamic: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Colloquium organised by the College of Europe, Bruges, and the Institut fuer Europaeische Politik, Bonn (The Bruges Conferences.
		Decision concerning the Maastricht Treaty : An article from: The American Journal of International Law
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /maastricht_treaty.htm (664 words)

	Socialism Today - Who is Iain Duncan Smith?
		A crucial ingredient of this rise is undoubtedly his record as a dogged opponent of the euro and further EU integration.
		The main effect was to re-focus public attention on the party's biggest electoral handicap - the poisonous legacy of Thatcher's 18 years of cuts, privatisation, and attacks on workers' living standards, for which the Tories are still hated by a big majority of voters.
		Infuriated by Thatcher's intervention, Major countered by denouncing her role in inciting the Maastricht rebels - the 'bastards' led by IDS - to vote against his government.
	www.socialismtoday.org /60/tories.html (2649 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 30 Jun 1993
		The Government have been extremely effective negotiators throughout the Maastricht process and in other contexts and, as good negotiators sometimes must, they have seized the chance and brought to the House an extremely good deal.
		There are 25 signatures on the reasoned amendment tabled by the Government's internal opponents, the Maastricht rebels.
		It is critical that we have the extra seats, because one of the key elements of the Maastricht treaty is to increase the role and responsibility of the European Parliament.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1993-06-30/Debate-7.html (6480 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Duncan Smith's big gamble
		He knew they were deliberately out to sabotage his leadership and further their own ambitions, he said.
		He was, after all, one of the leading anti-Maastricht rebels against John Major when he was leader.
		Still, he IS furious that the eight rebels defied his orders over the adoption vote.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/politics/2403969.stm (550 words)

	Bill Cash - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is a vicechair of the Coalfield Communities APPG, and chair of the European Foundation, a eurosceptic group.
		He has been described as "most merciless and obsessive Europhobe of them all" [1] (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives2001/comment/0,1455,564076,00.html), and he was "a ringleader of the Maastricht rebels in the early 1990s".
		(The Maastricht rebellion in 1994 was over the enactment of the Treaty of Maastricht, and almost brought John Major's government down.)
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Bill_Cash (192 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From 1990 to 1995 Ryder was the government's Chief Whip.
		This period includes the Conservative backbench rebellion over the Maastricht treaty.
		The maverick MPs, known as the Maastricht Rebels, were under intense pressure from the government whips but still brought the administration of John Major close to collapse.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Lord_Ryder (251 words)

	UK Independence Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roger Knapman, UKIP leader and a former Maastricht rebel alongside Iain Duncan Smith, said, “Iain is the only Conservative leadership contender to have displayed Eurosceptic beliefs, even if they were in the distant past.
		Roger Knapman is the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, and until 1997 was the Conservative MP for Stroud.
		A former whip, he was one of the Maastricht rebels alongside Iain Duncan Smith.
	www.ukip.org /abc_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=264 (188 words)

	Blair gets a warning from his Euro-rebels
		A WARNING that Tony Blair could face a Euro-rebellion of his own was sounded yesterday by a Left-winger who indicated that he would defy any attempt to enter a single European currency.
		Labour Left-wingers have received strict warnings from the party leadership not to step out of line during the election but there are clear signs in private that they are ready to resist moves towards a single currency.
		Mr Canavan told BBC radio: "If there was a referendum held tomorrow I would vote against it because I think that the convergence criteria under the Maastricht Treaty impose such constraints on public expenditure that that would inhibit a future government from investing in essential services such as housing, health and education.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/04/16/ne116.html (423 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many of these were purely about the personal lives of politicians which the media attempted to construe as hypocrisy, but the Cash for Questions affair and the divisions over EU were substantive.
		In 1995, Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party in order to trigger a leadership election which he hoped would give him a renewed mandate, and quieten the Maastricht rebels (people such as Iain Duncan Smith, Bill Cash, Bernard Jenkin).
		As the term went on, with by-elections being consistently lost by the Conservatives, their majority reduced and eventually entirely vanished.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/conservative_party__uk_.html (2731 words)

	Maastricht Treaty Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Observer \| Tories throw out rebel peers for backing UKIP
		Michael Howard was forced yesterday to expel four rebel Tory peers from the party after they declared their backing for the far-right UK Independence party.
		The coup for the fringe party - which advocates withdrawal from the EU and has run a heavily anti-immigrant campaign - marks the most serious internal crisis over Europe since John Major withdrew the whip from Maastricht rebels.
		But he has not gone far enough for the rebels, who tried to persuade him to threaten to renegotiate the founding treaties of the EU - paving the way for withdrawal.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4935709-102279,00.html (592 words)

	Politics \| Tough guy loyalist who stood aside in name of unity
		A working class Jewish boy made good and brought up on a council estate, he is best remembered for the way he handled the Maastricht rebels - attending their meetings and acting as "enforcer" for the Tory whip Richard Ryder as John Major faced down the "bastards" over Europe.
		He once took a portable phone, in the days before mobiles were in wide use, to a Tory ball to recall Tory MPs for a tight vote on Maastricht.
		Mr Davis is known as a man who does not suffer fools gladly nor is he impressed by status or money - he once refused to help out one of the most powerful Tory donors, Lord Ashcroft, when he was running into the first of a series of problems over his business interests in Belize.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4785714-107980,00.html (552 words)

	The Observer \| Comment \| Hywell Williams: Caring Tories care only for themselves
		And it excommunicates with the self-righteous zeal that churches used to bring to the same exercise.
		Rebels with causes and individuals with a grievance, the awkward and the angry: all suffer the same pains of exclusion: they are first categorised and then character-assassinated as 'unsound', 'bitter' or 'disappointed'.
		Iain Duncan Smith, once a 'disloyal' leader of Maastricht rebels, becomes the leader to whom all loyalty is due - until the next leadership election.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,768923,00.html (1415 words)

	Stephen Pollard • Blair goes for broke (Wall Street Journal Europe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My time co-incided with the Maastricht Treaty debates and part of my job was to help organise the Labour anti-Maastricht rebels.
		Since the main arguments of the europhiles are all variations on the theme of 'the euro is inevitable', what could be more persuasive than for a man such as Mr Straw, with all his credentials as a eurosceptic, to be campaigning with the 'yes' side?
		His eurocepticism, after all, did not prevent him deserting his long-standing allies and voting for the Maastricht Treaty.
	www.stephenpollard.net /000063.html (1284 words)

	Maastricht Treaty -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maastricht Treaty -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		It led to the creation of the (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) European Union and was the result of separate negotiations on monetary union and on political union.
		For other languages look at the EU page on the
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maastricht_treaty.htm (527 words)

	Maastricht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The treaty was an important step in the continuing integration of the countries of the
		(Maastricht Treaty and the creation of a single European union) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography) (Daedalus)
		A Maastricht TREAT; It's not typically Dutch but the town is buzzing, says Adrian McLeay.(Business Travel) (The Birmingham Post (England))
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0830797.html (456 words)

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