Thus was born the six-country European common market, which has now become the 25-country European Union.
In 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle ruled out negotiations for an early British entry into the European Common Market.
Yet ten months later, the establishment of the European common market, which was the beginning of today's European Union, was put forward at the Messina conference in Italy.
If the U.S can live with a strong European Union and European common market, there is no reason why a similar Latin American and Caribbean body should be a problem.
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And, incidentally, it explains France's eagerness to see off others whom it considers to be encroaching on its domain, notably the British, whose first attempts to join the European common market were vetoed by de Gaulle.
And there are serious challenges to the unity of Europe, which is very evident now because the European common market arrangements did not include the economic arrangements that would be necessary to bring about a consolidated market.
In much the same way the European Common Market inexorably mutated into the European Union, the idea is, in the words of the new trilateralists, to "evolve by stealth" a "North American Community" out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Our goal is to make the common market for European goods and services more accessible to businesses and consumers, boost our economy and set an international standard for online privacy.
As such, Detroit's and Michigan's economies have more in common with the European car market, where sales fell more than 7% last year and are predicted to continue tumbling in 2013.
With the precedent of a supranational organization firmly set by the European Coal and Steel Community, Western Europe moved forward again in 1957 with the launch of the European Economic Community--the Common Market, as it came to be called.
It was mildly important when the then European Economic Community was just a small common market.
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In 1958, the European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, came into being.
The Common Market was turned into the European Union, with expanded powers.
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Give British law precedence over European regulations and repeal the act incorporating the UK into the Common Market.
The Cyprus presidency also aims to launch a Common European Asylum System by the end of this year and foster a deepening of the EU Single Market.
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