On 2 July 1956, the Soviet representative to the European Office of the United Nations, A. Tchistiakov, submits a memorandum from the Soviet Union Government concerning the draft pan-European agreement on economic cooperation to Gunnar Myrdal, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe.

In a memorandum issued on 16 March 1957, Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, condemns the establishment of Euratom and the European Common Market.

On 17 March 1957, the Italian daily newspaper Il nuovo Corriere della Sera leads with Moscow’s attempts to scupper the plans for European unification devised by the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

On 30 April 1959, the Statistical Office of the European Communities drafts a note that outlines the critical comments in the Soviet press towards the European Economic Community.

On 19 July 1961, reporting on a meeting of the Six at Bad Godesberg, a suburb of Bonn, Radio Moscow refers to the European Common Market as a military bloc and criticises the military revanchism of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).

‘Diplomatic torpedoes.’ In 1961, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt portrays the hostility of the Soviet leaders towards the process of European unification.

‘Shared seats’. On 20 February 1962, the satirical Moscow weekly publication Krokodil criticises the predominant roles of France and the Federal Republic of Germany in the European Economic Community (EEC) to the detriment of the United Kingdom, a country that they are deliberately keeping on the sidelines.

On 5 June 1962, the French daily newspaper Le Monde reviews trade relations between the Soviet Union and Western Europe following the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 11 June 1962, the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera analyses the reasons behind Moscow's hostility to the European Economic Community (EEC).

'Merely bluff and decadence!! Come 1980, we'll have all that too!' In July 1962, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt portrays Moscow's criticism of the European Economic Community and of the free market economy.

On 5 September 1962, the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera explains the reasons behind Soviet leaders’ increasing concern over the success of the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 17 September 1962, Walter Hallstein, the President of the European Commission, gives an address to the European Parliament in which he responds to Soviet attacks on the European Common Market.

‘EEC and COMECON – Your bull’s very vigorous, European farmer, – my cow wouldn’t be against a spot of insemination’. In September 1962, the German cartoonist Hentrich portrays Moscow’s attitude towards the European Economic Community in the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus.

'The Common Market — scrambled eggs, Bonn-style'. In September 1962, the Communist weekly publication Krokodil takes a satirical look at the end of the first European agricultural 'marathon' and at the role played by the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, in the negotiations.

‘To get closer or not – is that the question?’ In 1967, the cartoonist, Hans Geisen, illustrates the implications of the meeting held from 24 to 26 April 1967 in Karlovy-Vary (Karlsbad) of representatives from Communist parties and workers within Europe, focussing particularly on a collective security system based on the principles of peaceful coexistence between states which have different social systems.

'Working together'. In January 1969, the Soviet magazine Krokodil ridicules the image of the Common Market and predicts the fall of the European economic structure.

On 4 July 1969, Louis George Rabot, Director-General of Agriculture at the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) submits a note to Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the CEC, in which he speculates on the consequences of certain commercial agreements concluded by the Member States with state-trading countries.