EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Definition & Meaning

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European Community

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an association of W European countries that includes the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), the European Economic Community, the European Parliament, and allied organizations. : EC
European Economic Community.

European Community

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an economic and political association of European States that came into being in 1967, when the legislative and executive bodies of the European Economic Community merged with those of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community: subsumed into the European Union in 1993 EC

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The following week – a day after the State Opening of Parliament – they will host about 50 heads of government at Blenheim Palace for the European Community Summit.

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The EU - called the European Community when Delors took the helm - grew from 10 nations to 12 during his tenure, with a clear promise of the far greater expansion that has since taken place.

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The EU — called the European Community when Delors took the helm — grew from 10 nations to 12 during his tenure, with a clear promise of the far greater expansion that has since taken place.

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Under its new leader, what was then the European Community faced enormous challenges including the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and war in the former Yugoslavia.

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In the 1980s, the EU, then the European Community, adopted it as its national anthem.

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