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Peace forged from cold steel
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Treaty Of Paris
It was signed in April 1951, between France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg who made up the first European Community. Establishing European coal and steel community(ECSC).
Treaty Of Rome
The foreign ministers of The Six met in a Conference in Messina (Italy) in 1955.
The agreements they reached there meant a definitive step in the European construction
The 25th March 1957, the Six signed the Treaties of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).
European Union Members in 2012
As of 2012, there are twenty-seven EU member states. Six core states founded the European Economic Community in 1957 and the remaining states joined in subsequent enlargements.
Before being allowed to join the EU, a state must fulfil the economic and political conditions generally known as the Copenhagen criteria.
These essentially require a candidate to have a democratic, free market government together with the corresponding freedoms and institutions, and respect the rule of law.