BRUSSELS, Feb. 6, 1992 (UPI) --The treaty results from agreements reached Dec. 9-10 at the last summit of EC heads of state and government in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht, which will host Friday's signing.

PARIS, Sept. 20, 1992 (UPI) -- French voters appeared to narrowly approve the Maastricht Treaty on European unity Sunday, expressing cautious confidence in the 40-year-old dream of creating an economically and politically unified Europe.

PARIS, Sept. 21, 1992 (UPI) - The narrowness of the French vote in favor of the Maastricht Treaty will make it more difficult to ratify the pact in Germany and Britain and raises serious doubts that the document can be implemented in its current form, analysts said Monday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 16, 1992 (UPI) -- Reacting to widespread popular discontent with the Maastricht Treaty on European unity, leaders from the region vowed Friday to build a more democratic European Community that would be respectful of the traditions of its member states.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 28, 1992 (UPI) - Denmark Wednesday published its long- awaited proposals for special treatment under the stalled Maastricht Treaty.A June 2 Danish referendum rejection of the pact plunged the European Community into disarray.

ROME, Oct. 29, 1992 (UPI) - Lawmakers in Spain and Italy overwhelmingly endorsed the embattled Maastricht Treaty on European unity Thursday, giving a needed boost to proponents of the agreement following a Danish defeat, a narrow French victory and an AngThe lower house of the Spanish Parliament ratified the treaty with a near-unanimous vote of 314-3, with the negative votes coming from the small Basque separatist party Herri Batsuna. The left-wing Izquierda Unida coalition split on the issue and eight of its 17 deputies abstained.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 1, 1993 (UPI) -- The European Community Monday formally launched negotiations aimed at admitting Austria, Finland and Sweden to the Community by the beginning of 1995, but Stockholm repeated that it will not participate in any military alliance, despite moves within the Community toward common foreign and security policy.

The Maastricht Treaty on unity among the 12 European Community members, approved by the European Council in December 1991, has been ratified by 10 nations and awaits the approval of Denmark and Britain. It also faces legal challenges in Germany's constitutional court.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 18, 1993 (UPI) - In a vote that could reinvigorate plans to turn Europe into an integrated economic colossus, Danes voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve the Maastricht treaty on European union that they rejected a year ago.

BRUSSELS, Aug. 1, 1993 (UPI) - Bowing to currency speculators, European Community finance ministers Monday temporarily loosened the bands that hold Europe's currencies together in a last ditch attempt to save the money grid by discharging the market tensions that threaten to demolish it.

LONDON, Aug. 3, 1993 (UPI) -- Britain ratified the Maastricht Treaty on European union Monday within hours of overcoming the last legal hurdle to the controversial pact.

BERLIN, Oct. 12, 1993 (UPI) - Germany's Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal against the Maastricht Treaty, issuing a long awaited decision that clears the way for a closer European union.Germany was the last of 12 European Community members to ratify the treaty, and the approval of the court in Karlsruhe allows implementation of the agreement to establish closer economic, monetary and political ties in the European Community.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 21, 1993 (UPI) -- The European Community Thursday dealt out $108.4 billion (93.8 billion European Currency Units) in aid to the poorest EC regions for the period between 1994 and 1999, but the portion allotted to Ireland fell shortThe Commission, the EC's executive arm, divided up two funds on a region-by-region basis and country-by-country basis that ensure certain minimum amounts to each nation according to the instructions of ministers from the 12 member states.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 29, 1993 (UPI) - European Community leaders Friday approved a series of mainly symbolic measures intended to ''relaunch Europe'' at a special summit originally intended to celebrate closer ties under the Maastricht treaty.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 29, 1993 (UPI) -- The European Community decided Friday to put its future central bank in Frankfurt, Germany.