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European Economic Community
вропейска икономическа общност (Bulgarian)
Evropské hospodářské společenství (Czech)
Europæiske Økonomiske Fællesskab (Danish)
Europese Economische Gemeenschap (Dutch)
Euroopa Majandusühendus (Estonian)
Euroopan talousyhteisö (Finnish)
Communauté économique européenne (French)
Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (German)
Ευρωπαϊκή Οικονομική Κοινότητα (Greek)
Európai Gazdasági Közösség (Hungarian)
Comhphobal Eacnamaíochta na hEorpa (Irish)
Comunità Economica Europea (Italian)
Eiropas Ekonomikas Kopiena (Latvian)
Europos ekonominė bendrija (Lithuanian)
Komunità Ekonomika Ewropea (Maltese)
Europejskiej Wspólnoty Gospodarczej (Polish)
Comunidade Económica Europeia (Portuguese)
Comunitatea Economică Europeană (Romanian)
Európske hospodárske spoločenstvo (Slovak)
Evropsko gospodarsko skupnost (Slovene)
Comunidad Económica Europea (Spanish)
Europeiska ekonomiska gemenskapen (Swedish)
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| Sui generis international organisation |
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1958 – 2009 |
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Flag
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Motto
United in Diversity |
Anthem
Ode to Joy (orchestral) |
Membership of the EEC from 1986 (green)
and of the later EC pillar until 2009 (blue). |
| Capital |
Not applicable¹ |
| Language(s) |
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| Political structure |
International organisation |
| Commission President |
| - 1958-1967 |
Walter Hallstein |
| - 1967-1970 |
Jean Rey |
| - 1985-1995 |
Jacques Delors |
| - 1999-2004 |
Romano Prodi |
| - 2004-2009 |
José Manuel Barroso |
| Legislature |
Legislature |
| - Upper house |
Council of Ministers |
| - Lower house |
European Parliament |
| Historical era |
Cold War, Post-Cold War |
| - Treaty signing |
25 March 1957 |
| - Established |
1 January 1958 |
| - Pillar of EU |
1 November 1993 |
| - Full absorption |
1 January 2009 |
| Currency |
Different currency per state³ |
¹ The political centres were Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg.
²The languages used before the EEC was absorbed by the EU were Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
³From 1999 the euro was used in some states, see Eurozone and Enlargement of the eurozone. |
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The European Economic Community (EEC), later simply the European Community (EC), was an international organisation created in 1957 to bring about economic integration between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
Its remit and membership expanded over the following years and its institutions also governed the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom from 1969, leading to the term European Communities to apply to all three under the EEC.
In 1993 the Maastricht Treaty made the EEC one of the three pillars of the European Union (EU), renaming it simply the European Community. It was completely absorbed by the European Union on 1 January 2009 with the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.
