mar 25, 1957 - Treaty of Rome

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Treaty of Rome, also known as, Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (TEEC), is an international agreement that brought about the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), which was in time to become the European Union (EU).
According to the historian Tony Judt, the Treaty of Rome did not represent a fundamental turning point in the history of European integration:
“It is important not to overstate the importance of the Rome Treaty. It represented for the most part a declaration of future good intentions...Most of the text constituted a framework for instituting procedures designed to establish and enforce future regulations. The only truly significant innovation – the setting up under Article 177 of a European Court of Justice to which national courts would submit cases for final adjudication – would prove immensely important in later decades but passed largely unnoticed at the time”

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