Rome Treaty

Rome Treaty
   The treaty signed in March 1957 (and operative from January 1958) by the six member states (‘the Six’) of the European Coal and Steel Community, which decided to extend their cooperation into a European Economic Community (the EEC). At the same time, a further treaty established Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community), a body intended to promote the peaceful development of atomic energy. The EEC established major objectives, including: a customs union in which all internal barriers to trade would be removed and a common external tariff applied to the outside world; the development of a Common Agricultural Policy; the harmonisation of social security arrangements; the free movement of labour and capital; and the development of regional and social funds to assist poorer regions. With the fulfilment of these objectives, there would be a Common Market. The Six were aiming for ‘a harmonious development of economic activities, a continuous and balanced expansion, an increased stability, an accelerated raising of the standard of living, and closer relations between its member states’. The Common Market was a means to this end, not the end in itself. The aim was economic unity. Political unity was not mentioned, but the Founding Fathers knew there was clear political language in the treaty they had signed, the intention being ‘to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe’.
   Further reading: N. Nugent, The Government and Politics of the European Union, Palgrave, 2003

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