Examples of Asserting National Interests IV: The Danish Opt-Out Clause

Examples of Asserting National Interests IV: The Danish Opt-Out Clause

The following is an adapted version of an article written by former Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration and researcher at the Europe Strategy Research Institute Tibor Navracsics, originally published in Hungarian on the Five Minutes Europe blog of Ludovika.hu. The Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992, was intended by its drafters to usher in a new era in the history of European integration. In addition to the traditional foc…