ABSTRACT
We have seen how, in the 1950s, six countries in Europe set up a Community to cooperate in the area of coal and steel, adopting the ECSC Treaty in 1951. This was followed by two further ‘Communities’ in 1957, one in the area of atomic energy and the other a more general ‘economic Community’. All three Communities – ECSC, European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and European Economic Community (EEC) – used very similar institution and methods, despite the existence of three separate treaties.
