Treaty of Rome: Articles

This paper relates the main steps of the European Union building from the end ofWWII. What may today look like a coherent and well-defined project is in fact the result of numerous steps owing much to contingent circumstances. From ECCS to the treaty of Rome and beyond, the integration of Europe, is in fact as Monnet put it « the sum of the solutions adopted to crises ». Despite crises and the limits of this model, it is true that autonomy in an interdependent world is a reactionary illusion.

This article explores the steps leading up to Treaty of Rome, its content and the lasting effect it has.

Le conflit russo-ukrainien pourrait bien inciter les pays européens à faire un pas de plus dans leur intégration politique. Une intégration politique que préconisait déjà Victor Hugo au milieu du XIXe siècle, appelant au rapprochement des pays européens dans une « unité supérieure », en matière tant économique que politique. L’écrivain français sera finalement suivi au cours du XXe siècle, par les pères fondateurs de la Communauté européenne. C’est ce que rappelle Pierre Papon, dans ce Futur d’antan, en reprenant de larges extraits de ces discours fondateurs qui ont conduit l’Europe à se construire, à petits pas, par l’interdépendance économique; en attendant l’étape d’une véritable intégration politique?

This article aims to review EU competition rules by undertaking a historical purposive interpretation of the drafting process of the Treaty of Rome.

This newspaper article takes stock on the 30 year anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.

In the forty-odd years that have elapsed since the two Treaties of Rome came into force, the attention of learned authors has tended to be overwhelmingly focused on one of them, the EC Treaty and subsequent up-datings of it, to the detriment of the other, the Euratom Treaty, which has been correspondingly neglected.

The authors of this article trace the process of "constitutionalisation" of the Treaty of Rome and European law. This process was largely driven by the European Court of Justice and some other pro-European legal experts, thereby establishing a legal order of a protofederal character with direct effect and primacy vis-à-vis national law.

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of EU member states’ power, the EU’s capability to act (efficiency), and the proportionality of the voting system in the Council of Ministers from the treaties of Rome in 1958 till the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 and beyond, using a wide range of alternative power indices.