ABSTRACT
On July 6, 1967 the European Economic Community decided to change its name, merging the executives of the EEC, the ECSC and Euratom into a single body responsible for the administration of what then became simply the European Communities (EC). But this change in no way strengthened its ability to produce any greater political unity on the question of enlargement than had existed in 1963, and de Gaulle continued to act in a way which seemed deliberately calculated to annoy France’s allies in NATO as well as its partners in the EC.
