The treaty has an internal logic, especially since it dealt with the question of budgetary policy by way of an agreement between the Member States concerning stability and growth (the Stability and Growth Pact, which inter alia limits deficits to 3% of the budget S.H.). We have a coherent bloc of the economic and monetary union.
As far as decisions on political union are concerned, Europeans can make do with the present Union and also go further or even further still. This is an open question. It is the people of Europe who will decide on this.” At the same time, Trichet wishes to stress that within Economic and Monetary Union, EMU, there is a built-in element of political union.