The Treaty of Rome, formally the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community, was signed on 25 March 1957 on Capitoline Hill in Rome and entered into force on 1 January 1958, founding the European Economic Community as a common market among its original member states with the government of Italy as its depositary. It is regarded as a founding treaty of European integration, and its anniversaries have been marked by later summits including gatherings in Berlin in 2007 and Rome in 2017.
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1. Wikipedia: Treaty of Rome
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The Treaty of Rome, or EEC Treaty (officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community), brought about the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), the best known of the European Communities (EC).
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The treaty was signed on 25 March 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and it came into force on 1 January 1958.
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