• The Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973, the same year as Britain.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • It was mildly important when the then European Economic Community was just a small common market.

    ECONOMIST: Bureaucracies grow faster than they can be pruned

  • In 1958, the European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, came into being.

    CNN: Thursday,

  • His private Member's Bill would repeal the 1972 act allowing the UK to join the former European Economic Community.

    BBC: MPs debate case for UK pulling out of European Union

  • In 1972, 83% of Irish voters endorsed the decision to join what was then the European Economic Community.

    ECONOMIST: Ireland

  • Belatedly, the country embraced free trade with Britain and, by joining the European Economic Community in 1973, with much of the rest of Europe.

    ECONOMIST: The luck of the Irish

  • For a decade he vetoed British entry into the European Economic Community, fearing that Britain would act as a Trojan horse for American influence.

    BBC: Part Three - France and the World

  • Fifty years later the European Economic Community has changed out of all recognition, having metamorphosed into the European Union and grown far beyond the original six members.

    ECONOMIST: Fit at 50? | The

  • When the original six member states founded the EU (then called the European Economic Community) in 1958, the UK instead set up the European Free Trade Area (Efta).

    BBC: Analysis: An EU of two tiers after eurozone debt crisis

  • The Conservative prime minister's famous critique of the European Economic Community emphasised a vision of Europe working to help its member states, rather than the other way around.

    BBC: Prime ministers' speeches on Europe

  • The biggest reason why British governments in the 1960s sought belatedly to join the then European Economic Community was their feeling that a dynamic Europe was outperforming Britain economically.

    ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe

  • There were organisations variously called the European Economic Community, The European Coal and Steel Community and so on, but there was not a European Union before 1 Nov, 1993.

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  • Mr Lynch took Ireland into the European Economic Community (now the European Union) in 1973 and since then the Irish have embraced Europe with enthusiasm, happily ditching their own currency in favour of the euro.

    ECONOMIST: Jack Lynch

  • Panorama also continued to look overseas with reports on the drawn-out ending of the Vietnam War, Britain's involvement in the European Economic Community, Cold War espionage and the growth of international terrorist groups like the Red Army Faction.

    BBC: The Panorama decades

  • 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.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr Evans's excellent book is marred only by the occasional editing error (ORAF, the Organisation of the French Algerian Resistance, exists only as an acronym, and Mr Evans, when talking of the founding members of the European Economic Community, omits the Netherlands).

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  • This proposal was initiated by West Germany and France, was endorsed in principle yesterday by the European Economic Community meeting in Dublin and will be a major agenda item at the upcoming NATO summit meeting in London and the Houston Economic Summit.

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  • The closeness of Anglo-American military and intelligence ties, driven by the cold war, became a defining feature of British foreign policy and a source of tension between Britain and France, which led de Gaulle twice to veto British membership of the then European Economic Community, on the grounds of Britain's irremediable Atlanticism.

    ECONOMIST: Britain and the cold war

  • Middle-aged voters, many of whom voted for British membership of the European Community in 1975, in the hope of heading off economic failure and isolation, are the least hostile to the constitution.

    ECONOMIST: European constitution campaigns

  • After all, it was the French, together with the Germans, Italians and others in the European Community that pressed relentlessly for immediate Western financial assistance to Gorbachev at the Houston Economic Summit earlier this month.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | ��Trumping�� For Dollars: Moscow Plays Favorites In Payments To Western Creditors

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