1992 Integration of the EEC

In this section, the formation and development of the EEC through 1990 is discussed first. This discussion is then followed by a consideration of the further integration planned for 1992.

The EEC was created with the signing of a treaty in Rome in 1957, by Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Nederlands (Paxton, 1990). The European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) was created at the same time, by the same treaty, and with the same membership (Brewin, 1987). Each of these organizations became functioning realities on 1 January 1958 (Brewin, & McAllister, 1988). Prior to the creation of the EEC and EURATOM, the European Coal

and Steel Community (ECSC) had been created by a treaty signed in Paris in 1951. The ECSC was comprised of the same six member countries which formed the EEC and EURATOM, and became a functional reality on 10 August 1952.

Until 1 July 1967, each of the three communitiesthe EEC, EURATOM, and ECSCfunctioned as separate entities, although there were some common institutions. On 1 July

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In an economic context, and in a cultural context, the EEC is able to take effective, unified action. In March 1989, the European Economic Community (EEC) trade ministers agreed to restrict the admission to the Community of television programming produced outside of the Community to a level not to exceed 40 percent of the total non news and non sports programming within the Community (Common market law . . . , 1989). The major impact of this action will be felt by the United States, 6as more than onehalf of the television programming now broadcast in the EEC is of American origin. The EEC also acts effectively and in a unified manner with respect to trade. As an example, in the disagreement with the United States, which began in late1988, over the use of growth harmones in beef production, the Community acted with a single voice. While such actions have political overtones, they are not, strictly speaking, political actions. The external relations of the EEC with respect to the United States have undergone greater change than have the community's external relations with any other nation or group of nations. As a consequence of Europe's economic needs and its military weakness just after the Second World Wa
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