DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while
respecting their history, their culture and their traditions,

DESIRING to enhance further the democratic and efficient functioning
of the institutions so as to enable them better to carry out, within a
single institutional framework, the tasks entrusted to them,

RESOLVED to achieve the strengthening and the convergence of their
economies and to establish an economic and monetary union
including, in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, a single
and stable currency,

DETERMINED to promote economic and social progress for their
peoples, within the context of the accomplishment of the internal
market and of reinforced cohesion and environmental protection, and
to implement policies ensuring that advances in economic integration
are accompanied by parallel progress in other fields,

RESOLVED to establish a citizenship common to the nationals of their
countries,

RESOLVED to implement a common foreign and security policy
including the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which
might in time lead to a common defence, thereby reinforcing the
European identity and it independence in order to promote peace,
security and progress in Europe and in the world,

REAFFIRMING their objective to facilitate the free movement of
persons while ensuring the safety and security of their peoples, by
including provisions on justice and home affairs in this Treaty,