Merger Treaty
About the Merger Treaty
Brussels institutional consolidation merging the EEC, Euratom, and ECSC executives into a single Commission and Council. It created the structure recognizable today, one Commission, one budget, one civil service. Signed the year of the Empty Chair Crisis, de Gaulle boycotting qualified majority voting, proving integration moves in pushes and crises. The merger set Brussels as the capital of Europe.
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