ABSTRACT
The original Treaty foundations for the economic and social policies of the European Economic Community are to be found in the EEC Treaty of 1957 (the Rome Treaty): see Articles 2, 3 and 8 EEC (as developed to varying degrees in subsequent Articles) in Chapter 1. As we have seen, this Treaty has been successively amended by the Single European Act of 1986, the Maastricht Treaty on European Union of 1992 (TEU), the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1997 (ToA) and the Treaty of Nice of 2001. The general cumulative effect of the changes brought about has been to modify overall aims and to increase the scope of the Community’s competence by additions to its economic and social policy areas within, since 1992, the first pillar of the Union.
