On 19 February 1957, the Heads of Government accompanied by the Foreign Ministers of the six countries participating in the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom meet at the Hôtel Matignon, Paris, to assess the state of the Val Duchesse negotiations and take the final political decisions for the conclusion of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).