the (european economic) community
1(the) European Economic Community — the European Economic Community [the European Economic Community] (abbr the EEC) a former organization, started in 1957, to encourage trade within Europe. In Britain it was also known as the Common Market …
2the European Economic Community — UK US noun ECONOMICS, POLITICS ► THE EEC(Cf. ↑the EEC) …
3Convention on the association of the Netherlands Antilles with the European Economic Community — Convention amending the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, with a view to making applicable to the Netherlands Antilles the special regime of association defined in part IV of the said Treaty Type Amends the Treaty establishing… …
41969 in the European Economic Community — 1st and 2nd December: European summit in The Hague. This was the first summit of the EEC s heads of state and government during which far reaching decisions were reached (former summits were purely ceremonial). The two most important results of… …
5European Economic Community — EEC redirects here. For other uses, see EEC (disambiguation). This article is about the multinational organization established in 1957 and became part of the first European Union pillar from 1993 to 2009. For the collective of the three European… …
6European Economic Community — (EEC) the third of the three foundation organisations of what is now the European Union. Constituted by one of the Rome Treaties of March 1957, this community drove progress towards European integration. Its common market was the source of… …
7European Economic Community — ˌEuropean ˌEconomic Comˈmunity abbreviation EEC noun ORGANIZATIONS an old name for the European Community, used especially when it was referred to in relation to its economic institutions, for example the agreement to allow goods and services to… …
81972 in the European Economic Community — 22nd January: Signing of the treaties of accession by Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland and Norway. While Norwegian voters later in the year rejected the treaty in a referendum the three other states joined the EC on 1st January 1973 …
9Committee of Agricultural Organizations in the European Economic Community — (COPA) A transnational federation of farming unions and associations which supplements the activities of the national agricultural unions in lobbying the institutions of the EC on behalf of farming interests …
10European Economic Community — EEC; Common Market The European common market set up by the six member states of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1957. At the same time the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) was set up. The European Parliament and the… …
