What did the term "European Union" mean to the governments of France, Great Britain, Germany, and the European Commission when they were negotiating the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s? The answer is: they associated very different concepts with the term "union" such as "democratic Europe," "Europe of the market," and "Europe of a single voice."

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Viktor Jaeschke, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.