Treaty of Rome
About the Treaty of Rome
Created the European Economic Community, the common market, and Euratom. The six Inner Six abolished tariffs between them over a decade, establishing the four freedoms, goods, services, capital, persons movement. It is the founding treaty of what became the European Union. The institutions, Commission, Council, Parliament, Assembly, Court, trace to it. Every EU treaty, Maastricht, Lisbon, amends Rome legacy.
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