Treaties of Rome

Treaty of Rome, signed in Rome (Photo: EU Commission)
Were signed in the Compadoglio in Rome on 25th March 1957 to set up the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community from 1st January 1958. The 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome will be celebrated at a formal summit in Berlin on the 27th of March 2007. At the summit a "Berlin Declaration" concerning the future of the Union will be adopted. It is a parallel to the Messina Declaration that was the preliminaries to the creation of the EU.

Links

http://europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entoc05.htm