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European Economic Community
Sui generis international organisation
←
1958 – 2009 →

Flag of EEC

Flag
Motto
United in Diversity
Anthem
Ode to Joy (orchestral)
Location of EEC
Membership of the EEC from 1986 (green)
and of the later EC pillar until 2009 (blue).
Capital Not applicable¹
Language(s)
23 (2009)²
Political structure International organisation
Commission President
 - 1958-1967 Walter Hallstein
 - 1967-1970 Jean Rey
 - 1985-1995 Jacques Delors
 - 1999-2004 Romano Prodi
 - 2004-2009 José Manuel Barroso
Legislature Legislature
 - Upper house Council of Ministers
 - Lower house European Parliament
Historical era Cold War, Post-Cold War
 - Treaty signing 25 March 1957
 - Established 1 January 1958
 - Pillar of EU 1 November 1993
 - Full absorption 1 January 2009
Currency Different currency per state³
¹ The political centres were Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg.
²The languages used before the EEC was absorbed by the EU were Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
³From 1999 the euro was used in some states, see Eurozone and Enlargement of the eurozone.

The European Economic Community (EEC), later simply the European Community (EC), was an international organisation created in 1957 to bring about economic integration between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

Its remit and membership expanded over the following years and its institutions also governed the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom from 1969, leading to the term European Communities to apply to all three under the EEC.

In 1993 the Maastricht Treaty made the EEC one of the three pillars of the European Union (EU), renaming it simply the European Community. It was completely absorbed by the European Union on 1 January 2009 with the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.