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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957, [note 1] aiming to foster economic integration among its member states. It was subsequently renamed the European Community (EC) upon becoming integrated into the first pillar of the newly formed European Union (EU) in 1993.
The United Kingdom (along with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar) was a member state of the European Union (EU) and of its predecessor the European Communities (EC) – principally the European Economic Community (EEC) – from 1 January 1973 until 31 January 2020.
The ECSC and EEC would later be integrated into the European Union under the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties in the early 1990s and mid-2000s. The UK had been the first country to establish a Delegation to the ECSC in 1952, and the first country to sign an Association Agreement with the Community in 1954.
Spain and Portugal acceded to the European Communities, now the European Union, in 1986. This was the third enlargement of the Communities, following on from the 1973 and 1981 enlargements. Their accessions are considered to be a part of the broader Mediterranean enlargement of the European Union. [1] [2]
Springfield, Ohio (Reuters) -Rose Joseph and Banal Oreus followed different paths from Haiti to this struggling Midwestern industrial city that suddenly finds itself at the center of the U.S ...
British propose America join in stating that European powers will not be permitted further American colonization. President James Monroe states it on December 2 as independent American policy. 1826 — Treaty of Mississinewas, US obtains lands in Ohio and Michigan.
The first time Ohio and Michigan nearly came to blows wasn't on the gridiron, as it turns out, but on a battlefield. One of the most heated rivalries in college football dates back to the 1800s ...
Ohio is the 3rd largest producer of tomatoes out of all 50 states in the United States, [79] and, in turn, the world's largest ketchup processing plant is located in Fremont. [79] Ohio's agricultural industries represent $124 billion of the state's economic output, employing one in eight Ohioans directly or indirectly.