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On the Border: Maastricht

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Tim Marshall asks what borders mean in Maastricht, the city where the European Union was born.

Tim Marshall profiles Maastricht, the city where 30 years ago the European Union was born. Have these economic measures dented relations between the communities that sit on one of Europe’s linguistic and cultural fault lines?

(Photo: Aerial view of the city of Maastricht. Credit: N. Bellegarde/Getty Images)

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