Jürgen Stark: Ten years of Maastricht - currency union leading to political union? Lecture by Dr Jürgen Stark, Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 17th European Finance Convention, London, 2 December 2003.
*  *  *  I The Treaty on European Union - better known as the Maastricht Treaty - entered into force ten years ago on 1 November 1993. The then 12 EC member states launched at that time an innovative and unique approach to creating in Europe an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).