4 January 2014 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, Editorial, EU blog post series, European Union
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The EU traces its origins from the
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the
European Economic Community (EEC), formed by the
Inner Six countries in 1951 and 1958, respectively. In the intervening years the community and its successors have grown in size by
the accession of new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to its remit. The
Maastricht Treaty established the
European Union under its current name in 1993. The latest major amendment to the constitutional basis of the EU, the
Treaty of Lisbon, came into force in 2009.
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