Europe special
Online magazine Europe comes together. The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 is a production of Historisch Nieuwsblad and Studio Europa Maastricht. The underlying idea of this online magazine is that everything that is going on in current European politics, such as brexit, the COVID support package, refugee reception, the climate agenda, it is important to know the past history.
The articles, videos and visual stories have been created by specialist historians and journalists. They explain how the Maastricht Treaty came about under Dutch leadership, after government leaders such as Helmut Kohl, John Major and François Mitterrand had negotiated at the cutting edge. They also analyse the intended and unintended consequences of the Treaty, such as the 2009 euro crisis.
