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Title: The EEC in focus
Authors: Clare, Arthur G.
Keywords: European Economic Community
European Union countries -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
European Economic Community -- History
Issue Date: 1978
Publisher: Upper Secondary School Valletta
Citation: Clare, A.G. (1978). The EEC in focus. Hyphen, 1(4), 18-20
Abstract: On 1 January, 1958, the treaty creating the EEC, or more popularly The Common Market, came into force. Six West European countries, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, gave their final consent to the setting up between them of a customs unionan agreement whereby signatories undertook to eliminate gradually all barriers to free trade and to erect a tariff wall protecting them against the outside world. This heralded a new relationship between European nations: henceforth, common problems dealing with commerce, agriculture, transport, and the movements of capital and labour, would be tackled by a common front aoting along lines dictated by a common policy. The Six also foresaw cooperation in the setting up of rules to cover fair competition and in the formulating of programmes for social welfare. They envisaged the eventual formation of an economic and political union of major European states bound by common laws, a common monetary system, a common taxation system, and so on. In short, a United States of Europe.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20166
Appears in Collections:Hyphen, Volume 1, No. 4 (1978)
Hyphen, Volume 1, No.4 (1978)

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