mar 25, 1957 - European Economic Community

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- the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
- aimed to create a common market by eliminating most trade barriers and establishing share trade policies
- intended to "lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe"
- quadrupling of the value of trade between 1958 and 1968 in the EEC attributed to greater economic integration

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