Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities
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Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities
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The accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities (EC) – the collective term for the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) – took effect on 1 January 1973. This followed ratification of the Accession treaty which was signed in Brussels on 22 January 1972 by the Conservative prime minister Edward Heath, who had pursued the UK's application to the EEC since the late 1950s. The ECSC and EEC would
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UK accession to the ECSC, EEC and EAEC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_the_European_Communities
date created:
2016-07-01T13:33:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T12:00:26Z
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