The European integration, when it started, was a completely new and unprecedented political and economical process, in which foreign policies of states shifted from power politics to a behavior based on the cooperation, procedural consensus and new supranational style of governance in community. Western European countries started to build new supranational regional communities and to delegate more and more power to this regional level, effectively creating a new category of polity.1
The European Community (EC), most important of two European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. The 'Economic' was removed from its name by the Maastricht treaty in 1992, which at the same time effectively made the European Community the first of three pillars of the European Union, called the Community (or Communities) Pillar.
The European communities was the name given collectively to the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), when in 1967, they were first merged under a single institutional framework with the Merger Treaty. …
