In eastern and central Europe the USSR in effect handed socialist revolutions out on a plate. This plan had been announced on the 9 May 1950 which subsequently became known as Europe Day. French Policy towards Germany since the war, This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 06:21. In 1994 the internal market was formalised by the EEA agreement. However the Council met in various forms depending upon the topic. Instead, it ensured that taxpayer funds from the Community budget have been correctly spent. Germany became a founding member of the EEC, and Konrad Adenauer was made leader in a very short time. The EEC inherited some of the Institutions of the ECSC in that the Common Assembly and Court of Justice of the ECSC had their authority extended to the EEC and Euratom in the same role. By virtue of the Merger Treaty in 1967, the executives of the ECSC and Euratom were merged with that of the EEC, creating a single institutional structure governing the three separate Communities. [11] The European Council in 1985 largely followed the Committee's recommendations, but as the adoption of a flag was strongly reminiscent of a national flag representing statehood, was controversial, the "flag of Europe" design was adopted only with the status of a "logo" or "emblem". The EEC's areas of activities were enlarged and were renamed the European Community, continuing to follow the supranational structure of the EEC. But the European Coal and Steel Community was not enough, even though it proved to be largely successful. It does not give details of post-1993 operation within the EU as that is explained in greater length in the, European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters, Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the. Coal mines and steel plants deemed inefficient were shut down with compensation and some retraining schemes. The USA, Britain and West Germany did not want the heavy industry in the Ruhr dismantled as it was part of the overall west European military-industrial-complex needed to square up to the perceived threat of the USSR. [21] After the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, these institutions became those of the European Union, though limited in some areas due to the pillar structure. For other pieces in this series go to: While the treaty for the latter was being drawn up by the Common Assembly, the ECSC parliamentary chamber, the proposed defense community was rejected by the French Parliament. [16] Both Amsterdam and the Treaty of Nice also extended codecision procedure to nearly all policy areas, giving Parliament equal power to the Council in the Community. Each Member State appointed one judge and a seventh judge was appointed in turn by France, Germany and Italy to make the bench an odd number to avoid tied votes. However, because Francoist Spain was not a democracy, all members rejected the request in 1964. It disliked many of the supranational elements in the treaties, it was worried about damaging links with Commonwealth countries and it wished to pursue a ‘one-world economic system’ policy in which sterling was a central currency.