Saturday, October 19, 2019

EU History


At the end of World War II, European countries were focused on rebuilding their industries and preventing European wars forever. They were drawn to the idea of forming a United States of Europe.

The League of Nations failure to prevent war was dissolved and replaced by the UN in 1945.

The EU had its beginnings with the formation of a European Common Market Trade Agreement at the Treaty of Rome in 1957. European countries had rebuilt their industries after 1945 and were looking to form a “trade block”. The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community EEC. Each member country retained its sovereignty and the right to pass its own laws and enforce its own borders.

The EEC was formally created in 1951 and set about to integrate the economies including a common market and customs union, among its six founding membersBelgiumFranceItalyLuxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany. The Treaty of Rome called for the creation of an EU Parliament

After 1960 the UK, Ireland, Greece, Denmark and Norway joined and in 1962 Spain joined, bringing the total membership to 12 countries.

On 1 July 1967 when the Merger Treaty came into operation, combining the institutions of the ECSC and Euratom into that of the EEC, they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Courts. Collectively they were known as the European Communities

In 1979, the EEC established an appointed Parliament and set about forming what we know now as the EU.


The EU was established as a governing body in 1993 at the Maastricht Treaty. 12 nations ratified the Maastricht Treaty on European Union: Great Britain, France, Germany, the Irish Republic, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

The EU had enthusiastically endorsed UN Agenda 21 in 1992 and began to remove borders and the national sovereignty of member countries. The endgame is to establish the EU as the European Region of a global government fronted by the UN and ruled by Marxist Olygarchs.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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