Word: euratom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Foreign Ministers of "Little Europe" met in Paris to elect officers for the Common Market and Euratom. They also chose directors for two other six-nation agencies, the thriving Coal and Steel Community and the new billion-dollar European Investment Bank. But they could not settle on a single city for their capital. Luxembourg's white-mustached old Premier and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech put up such a stubborn fight to keep the European Coal and Steel Community headquarters (and its $6,000,000 yearly payroll) for his tiny country that the founding fathers could only...
This was the Assembly's last meeting. Next February it will be replaced by a new parliament with authority over the Common Market and Euratom projects too. Said Pope Pius XII to the delegates: "The Coal and Steel Community has placed Europe on a new road leading to infinite promise...
...atomic energy development. After holding junior office in four successive Cabinets went into temporary eclipse during the premiership of fellow Radical Socialist Pierre Mendès-France, who thought him overly conservative, overly Europe-minded. In 1955 headed French delegation which laid the groundwork for the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
...closed meeting of the 74-man Socialist central committee, Nenni urged that the party support the European Common Market and Euratom treaty (already ratified by France and West Germany). "We cannot compromise the historic prospects for Europe,'' argued Nenni. Pro-Communist leaders complained that this would reinforce "the aggressive North Atlantic military bloc." After a tough three-day battle Nenni accepted a compromise solution by which his Socialists would vote in Parliament for Euratom, but abstain on the Common Market. When proCommunists still insisted on voting against both treaties, Nenni threatened to resign. With elections coming up next...
...answer, it soon appeared, was an urgent need for stocktaking, such as was taking place all over Western Europe last week as the result of the passage of the Euratom and Common Market treaties by the French National Assembly...