The Treaty of Rome

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The treaty which established the European Economic Community was signed by six countries in 1957 - France, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. It was hoped that European countries would never go to war again, if they were tied together by economic interests. The treaty formed the basis for what is now the European Union.

Photo: European leaders at the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images

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1:18.0	I'm Louise Hidalgo, and today as Britain leaves the European Union, I'm taking you back to the early days of the European
1:26.2	Project and the signature in Rome in 1957 of one of its founding treaties.
1:31.6	It was 12 years after World War II had left much of Europe in
1:35.8	ruins and the leaders of the six nations who signed that treaty in Rome were determined
1:40.9	they would never be a war like that again
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