Treaty of Rome

Voir taille réelle  On your left, you can see differents leaders of European countries signing the Treaty of Rome, in the city which gives its name to this essential text in European history, espacially in economic one. In fact, on the 25th March of 1957, after long negotiations, was established the European Economic Community, which is so, a common market, an economic alliance between six countries: these signatory states are France, Deutschland (you can see its leader, Konrad Adenauer), Italy and the three Benelux's members: Belgium, Luxemburg and Netherlands. However, beyond an only economic interest, the treaty of Rome marks an important step in European history, a projection towards the European construction, after the Second World War, which damaged and mutilated the continent, since it is the symbolical birth act of European Union. So, this treaty permited her to give herself a new blow. More, the same day, another treaty was signed and instituted Euratom, the european atomic energy community, in the same aim of a new organization, a new building of this, in those days, weak continent...These treaties came into force the 1st January 1958 and still stay capital so as to understand how Europe knew to reconstruct and to understand the European Union's origin....

It was a brief, but I hope interesting, glimpse about our continent, its history...