On 30 March 1957, reporting in the Party’s official daily newspaper Le Peuple on the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) in Rome on 25 March, Max Buset, Socialist MP for Thuin and Leader of the Belgian Socialist Party (PSB), welcomes the decisive steps recently taken by the Six towards a more unified Europe.