The Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) is signed in Rome on 25 March 1957 and enters into force on 1 January 1958.

In June 1957, the French Embassy in New York publishes an information document on Euratom to send to its American correspondents.

Drawing a political and economic lesson from the Suez Crisis and the problems of the oil shortage which it caused as from late 1956, the Six decide to create Euratom which seeks to make nuclear power a cheap and abundant source of energy.

In a speech to the Americans during the World Fair held in Seattle in 1962, the President of the Euratom Commission, the Frenchman Pierre Chatenet, describes the EAEC and its various institutions.

As the 1962 Annual Report of the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) is presented, Pierre Chatenet, French President of the Euratom Commission, replies to questions put by journalist Jacques Danois in Brussels on the importance of nuclear energy for the economic development of Europe.