6. The ‘Other’ European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Owen Parker ◽  
Ian Bache ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Charlotte Burns
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Energy Community

This chapter focuses on the ‘other’ European communities and the origins of the European Economic Community (EEC). Negotiations over a plan for a European Defence Community (EDC) ran parallel to those over the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). Connected with the EDC was a proposal to create a European Political Community (EPC) to provide democratic European structures for co-ordinating foreign policies. This chapter first considers the Pleven Plan for an EDC, before discussing the development of the EDC/EPC plan and the ultimate failure to reach agreement in 1954. It also analyses the Messina negotiations and the road to the Treaties of Rome. Finally, it looks at the experience of the other organization that was created at the same time as the EEC, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which, like the ECSC, was institutionally merged with the EEC in 1967.

6. The ‘Other’ European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)

2014 ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Ian Bache ◽  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Owen Parker
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Energy Community

This chapter focuses on the ‘other’ European communities and the origins of the European Economic Community (EEC). Negotiations over a plan for a European Defence Community (EDC) ran parallel to those over the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). Connected with the EDC was a proposal to create a European Political Community (EPC) to provide democratic European structures for co-ordinating foreign policies. This chapter first considers the Pleven Plan for a EDC before discussing the development of the EDC/EPC plan and the ultimate failure to reach agreement in 1954. It also analyses the Messina negotiations and the road to the Treaties of Rome. Finally, it looks at the experience of the other organization that was created at the same time as the EEC, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which, like the ECSC, was institutionally merged with the EEC in 1967.

The Association Agreements of the European Communities: A Comparative Analysis

1965 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Feld
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Energy Community

Since the establishment of the three European Communities (the European Coal and Steel Community [ECSC] in 1952 and the European Economic Community [EEC] and the European Atomic Energy Community [Euratom] in 1958) four agreements of association with non-member states have been concluded. The first of these was signed by ECSC and the United Kingdom on December 21, 1954. The other three agreements, concluded by EEC with Greece, with a number of newly independent African states and Madagascar, and with Turkey, were signed on July 9, 1961, July 20, 1963, and September 12, 1963, respectively. During the last few years other countries in Europe and Africa have expressed a desire to become associated with EEC, and preliminary discussions that may eventually result in additional association agreements are now under way with Austria, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda. Only Euratom has so far refrained from negotiating an association agreement although the Euratom Treaty contains provisions identical to those of the EEC Treaty for the conclusion of such agreements.

European Communities

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-341
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Consultative Committee ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Common ◽  
Energy Community

By the Rome treaties of March 25, 1957, which established the European Economic Community (EEC or common market) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), five major institutions were created to serve the Communities. Three of these organs, the Assembly, the Court of Justice, and the Economic and Social Committee, were to be the same for both Communities, under the conditions respectively laid down in the two treaties, while the other two institutions, the Council and the Commission, were to remain separate. According to the Convention which dealt with the institutions common to the Communities, the Assembly was to replace the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and the Court of Justice was to replace the Court provided for in the treaty establishing ECSC. The Economic and Social Committee was to serve only EEC and Euratom since ECSC was already served by a comparable body, the Consultative Committee.

European Community

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-857
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Energy Community ◽  
Council Of Ministers

Council of Ministers: The European Economic Community (EEC) Council Of Ministers met on July 29–30, 1964, to discuss the fusion of the EEC, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). It also discussed the question of Austria's future relations with the Community and instructed the permanent representatives to prepare draft directives to permit the opening of negotiations with Austria on the subject.

The Merger of the Institutions of the European Communities

1967 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon L. Weil
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
European Commission ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Member States ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Energy Community

On April 8, 1965, the representatives of the six member states (Belgium, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and The Netherlands) of the European Communities signed the “Treaty Establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities.” The treaty’s principal object is to replace the executive bodies of the three Communities, i.e., the Commissions of the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (E.C.S.C.) by a single European Commission. At the same time, the Councils of Ministers of these three Communities are to be merged into one Council. This Merger Treaty is intended to be the first step toward the ultimate merger of the E.C.S.C, instituted by the Treaty of Paris of April 18, 1951, and the E.E.C. and EURATOM, instituted by the Eome Treaties of March 25, 1957.

European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-261
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
European Community ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Energy Community

The European community treaties establishing the European Economic Community (common market) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) were ratified by Italy on October 9, 1957. by Luxembourg on November 26, by Belgium on November 28 and by the Netherlands on December 5 With the ratification thus completed the treaties came into force on January 1, 1958.

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