In style, content and appearance it could be likened to Time Magazine or Newsweek; however, a key difference is that its articles are produced by the residents of the country concerned, rather than by foreign correspondents.

Although the project failed due to several independent factors from Maul, he became expert about the creation of a new publication, the testing of the market and other similar necessary steps.

He printed a sample of Semajno ("week" in Esperanto), a 40-page number DIN A4-formed, black-white illustrated, with articles about terrorism, the Olympic games in Moscow in 1980, about the political situation in Spain, about gerontology and much more.

Stefan Maul became the editor-in-chief of Monato; he assembled a group of competent employees (Maria Becker-Meisberger, Marjorie Bolton, Margret Brandenburg, Eugène de Zila, Bernard Golden, Trevor Steel, Eduard Symoens, etc.).

Due to some difficulties of "TK/Stafeto", UEA took over the publication of Monato and was ready at its own expense to provide subscribers with the remaining numbers of 1984, and from 1985 to publish a magazine.

The director of the Antwerp graphic center, Paŭl Peeraerts, was informed that all employees will be dismissed and the office closed.