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TREATIES OF ROME SIGNEDEurope emerges – fewer obstacles to trade with a common marketThe signing of the Treaties of Rome on 25 March 1957 was one of the first high points in the endeavours of a number of European countries to unite. The foreign ministers of Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Luxembourg plus the heads of government of the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy signed the treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). Customs duties were to be removed and a single European market created. The European Community was born. Denmark, Greece, Spain, Ireland and Northern Ireland, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and Great Britain were soon to follow the example of the six founding states. An essential foundation stone had been laid for the political union of Europe. | |
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