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European Economic Community

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

15 dated entries naming European Economic Community, drawn from 13 separate years between 1957 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.

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20th century

  • 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
  • 1961July 31 – Ireland submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the European Economic Community.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
  • 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
  • 1991April 15 – End of Apartheid: The European Economic Community lifts economic sanctions on South Africa.source
  • 1993January 1 – The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.source

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