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From the Messina Conference to the Rome Treaties (EEC and EAEC)

  • > Introduction
  • > Towards revival
  • > Negotiations on the Rome Treaties
  • > The signing of the Rome Treaties (25 March 1957)
  • > Reactions to the signing of the Treaties
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On 19 November, the Chamber of Deputies adopted the draft laws ratifying the EEC and Euratom Treaties by 174 votes to 4 with 2 abstentions. The Social Christian and Socialist parties block-voted in favour. On 28 November, the Senate in turn ratified the Rome Treaties by 134 votes to 2 with 2 abstentions.


  • ‘The Six have signed the Treaties establishing Euratom and the Common Market’ from Le Soir (26 March 1957)

  • ‘The Europe of trusts’ from Le Drapeau rouge (27 March 1957)

  • Parliamentary debates in the Belgian Senate (26 November 1957)


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