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Maastricht judgment, BVerfGE 89, 155 (2 BvR 2134/92, 2 BvR 2159/92), 12 October 1993

Federal Constitutional Court of Germany · 1993

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2026-09-01
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Full German text in the Deutschsprachiges Fallrecht collection (University of Bern); the Court's own website does not publish decisions from before 1998.

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EstablishedIn its 1993 Maastricht judgment the German Federal Constitutional Court held that the Treaty on European Union establishes a Staatenverbund, an association of states for an ever closer union of the peoples of Europe, and not a state resting on a European people.