1.   The treaty envisaged tight military and technical cooperation between the two countries and joint use of military installations in case either is attacked.

2.   The treaty also envisaged tight military and technical cooperation between the two countries and joint use of military installations in case either is attacked.

3.   The founding EU treaties envisaged a loose objective of ever greater union.

4.   The Maastricht treaty on European Union envisaged the creation of a Europe-wide police agency, Europol, exactly for this reason.