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European Economic Community

1958–2009 organisation for economic integration, under the EU from 1993

23 dated entries naming European Economic Community, drawn from 19 separate years between 1956 CE and 1993 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as EEC, European Common Market, European Community in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 195625 October - The Constitution of Luxembourg is amended in two places to allow for the delegation of constitutional powers to international organisations, in preparation for the creation of the European Economic Community.source
  • 1957March 25 – The Treaty of Rome (Patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC; predecessor of the European Union) between Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.source
  • 195725 March – Luxembourg is one of the six founder signatories of the Treaty of Rome, creating the European Economic Community.source
  • 1961July 31 – Ireland submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the European Economic Community.source
  • 1963January 29 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the European Common Market.source
  • 196329 January – President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC.source
  • 1966October 4 – Israel applies for membership in the European Economic Community, which is never granted.source
  • 1967July 1 – The EEC joins with the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Community, to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]).source
  • 1967October 27 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community for the second time in the decade.source
  • 1970November 19 – The six European Economic Community nation prime ministers meet in Munich to begin the new programme of European Political Cooperation (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.source
  • 1973January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.source
  • 1975February 28 – In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.source
  • 1981January 1 – Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.source
  • 19822 May – The Government affirmed its neutrality in the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and opposed European Economic Community sanctions against Argentina (as did Italy).source
  • 1983January 23 – The European Economic Community's Common Fisheries Policy comes into effect.source
  • 1984October 25 – The European Economic Community makes £1.8 million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.source
  • 1985January 1 – Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights.source
  • 1985June 14 – The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at the time) 5 states with no internal border controls.source
  • 1986January 1 – Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993.source
  • 1987July 1 – The Single European Act is passed by the European Community.source
  • 1991April 15 – End of Apartheid: The European Economic Community lifts economic sanctions on South Africa.source
  • 1992April 7 - The United States and the European Community recognize the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina.source
  • 1993January 1 – The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.source

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