The Maastricht summit gives us great opportunities for economic, social and democratic reform.

That is why the Maastricht summit was always going to be important well beyond its paper agenda.

Whether there will be enough time at the Maastricht summit to discuss those matters as well remains to be seen.

For all those reasons, it is essential that there is a successful conclusion to the Maastricht summit next month.

We keep hearing comments tonight - we also heard them in the debate before the Maastricht summit - about sovereignty.

He is not optimistic about the Maastricht summit meeting because plans for increased political union will not significantly strengthen the authority of his commission.

While taking credit for the currency accord, the Chancellor admitted that he had not achieved all his goals at the Maastricht summit meeting.

Just days before the Maastricht summit, it is unclear how far France and Germany can press their demands without risking a British veto.

Looking back, we can see that the Maastricht summit was the culmination of a long process - a significant stage in the development of the European Community.

The IGC must equip the European Union with a proper common policy as promised during the Maastricht summit.

Thirdly, the Maastricht summit of December 1991 will bring about the most significant changes in European development since the foundation of the European Community.

"Nobody wants the Maastricht summit to be a summit that isolates Britain," a French spokesman, Jean Musitelli, said.

Will my right hon. Friend use his considerable influence to ensure that the problems outstanding on the GATT negotiations are discussed at the Maastricht summit?

The adoption of the cultural paragraph at the Maastricht Summit last December was not the only outcome of Maastricht relevant to the cultural sector.

As discussed on pages 7 - 8, the legal basis for these proposals remains controversial and it may be aggravated by the outcome of the Maastricht Summit in December 1991.

The Bundesbank let out this word: If West European leaders want a single currency, as they pledged at the Maastricht summit, they had better speed steps toward political union.

We must define the Europe that we want to see far beyond Maastricht and how we believe that the Maastricht summit can assist in achieving that Europe.

Mr Millan disclosed that the EC wanted the committee to be composed of 150 elected local representatives but had been overruled by the European leaders at the Maastricht summit.

"We should let the people speak," she said, but today Mr. Major firmly rejected her call for a referendum on any European treaty that comes out of the Maastricht summit meeting, or later.

This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission's social charter, rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit.

Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December.

Although the Maastricht summit meeting will probably fall short of Germany's expansive original goals, Germany itself will not be losing anything, except perhaps the expanded influence that it might exercise as a key voice in a federal Europe.

'The UK may have won a battle at the Maastricht summit, but not the 'war', says David Lomax, Group Economic Adviser at National Westminster Bank, in his January economic review.

The deutschmark was boosted by rumours that a realignment of the parities in the European Monetary System might be imminent ahead of the Maastricht summit of European Community leaders in December.

Ruud Lubbers Prime Minister of the Netherlands The host of the Maastricht summit meeting, Ruud Lubbers, is the longest-serving and perhaps most popular leader of the Netherlands in this century.