Treaty of Rome
EEC founding document
The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, established the European Economic Community—the predecessor to the European Union.
Six founding nations (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) agreed to create a common market with free movement of goods, services, capital, and people.
The treaty laid the groundwork for European economic and political integration.
- European ParliamentEU's elected legislative branch
- European CommissionEuropean Union's executive body
- founding fathersMale originators of institutions
- European UnionContinental political-economic federation
- free trade areaRegion without internal tariffs
tariff reduction · Marshall Plan · Common Market · 1957 · European integration · Bretton Woods system · supranationalism · economic cooperation · Eternal City · founding members · Brussels · signing · Cold War · six · steel · postwar · coal · union
Treaty of RomeWorld War II
Second global military conflict
Treaty of Versailles · World War I · Iron Curtain · Berlin Wall · Franco-Prussian War
Treaty of RomeDeclaration of Independence
America's founding proclamation
national constitution · sovereignty · Westphalian system · nation-state · isolationism