The Messina Conference
In June 1955 in Messina (Sicily) the foreign ministers of the Contracting States of the ECSC decided to “pursue the establishment of a United Europe through the development of common institutions, a progressive fusion of national economies, the creation of a common market and harmonization of social policies”. From this materialized two Treaties signed in Rome on 25 March 1957.
The first established the European Economic Community (EEC) and the second the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). The Treaties came into force on 1 January 1958. In time they became known as “the Rome Treaties”. Both were concluded for an indeterminate period of time.
