On 28 February 1957, commenting on the meeting in Paris attended by the Heads of Government and the Foreign Ministers of the six countries participating in the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit regards the imminent signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) as a major turning point in the history of Europe, on condition, however, that a new European order transcending the nation state is established.