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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 European Communities (EC) were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions.These were the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), and the European Economic Community (EEC), the last of which was renamed the European Community (EC) in 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty establishing the European Union.
The treaty remains an integral part of the constitutional basis of the European Union. On the 31 January 2020 the United Kingdom left the European Union after 47 years of membership after a referendum was held in 2016 which saw 51.9% of voters wish to leave the bloc, and is now no longer legally bound by the treaty.
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]
This term is also used to refer to the intensification of co-operation between EU member states as national governments allow for the gradual harmonisation of national laws. The EU's predecessor, the European Economic Community , [ 1 ] was founded with the Inner Six member states in 1958, when the Treaty of Rome came into force.
In 2020, the US government added Nuctech to a list of entities subject to stricter license requirements “for its involvement in activities that are contrary to the national security interests of ...
Felipe González signs the accession treaty on June 12, 1985, at the Royal Palace of Madrid, observed by Manuel Marín and Fernando Morán.. The Accession Treaty of Spain to the European Communities is a treaty for the accession of Spain to the European Economic Community —now the European Union— and was signed on June 12, 1985, in the Salón de Columnas of the Royal Palace of Madrid to ...
Already in 1967 the formal Declaration on the relations between SFR Yugoslavia and the EEC was signed. [3] In 1969, after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Permanent Mission of the SFRY to the EEC has been opened. [6] In 1977 the EEC granted access to the European Investment Bank to Yugoslavia. [2]