| 1. | Maastricht is, after all, a very strong rallying cry.
 
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 | 2. | All countries are subject to the Maastricht criteria, he said.
 
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 | 3. | The Maastricht Treaty sets standards for entry into the monetary union.
 
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 | 4. | The Maastricht treaty on European unification may help investors, too.
 
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 | 5. | To achieve the Maastricht criteria, the budget is going down.
 
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 | 6. | The Maastricht treaty allows those criteria to be interpreted with flexibility.
 
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 | 7. | The 1992 Maastricht treaty outlines the criteria for European monetary union.
 
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 | 8. | But the path from Maastricht to today was filled with obstacles.
 
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 | 9. | Those increases come at a crucial time for the Maastricht criteria.
 
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 | 10. | We will do everything to fulfill the Maastricht criteria in 1996,
 
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