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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 124 

Congratulating the European Union on the 50th anniversary of the signing 

of the Treaty of Rome, creating the European Economic Community 

among 6 European countries and laying the foundations for peace, stability, and prosperity in Europe. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 26, 2007 

Mr. BIDEN submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 

agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Congratulating the European Union on the 50th anniversary 

of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, creating the European Economic Community among 6 European countries 

and laying the foundations for peace, stability, and prosperity in Europe. 

Whereas after a half century of war and upheaval, and in the 

face of economic and political crises and the threat of 

communism, European visionaries began a process to 

bring the countries of Europe into closer economic and 

political cooperation to help secure peace and prosperity 

for the peoples of Europe; 

Whereas, on March 25, 1957, 6 European countries—the 

Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, 


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the Netherlands, and Luxembourg—signed the Treaty of 

Rome, creating the European Economic Community; 

Whereas the Treaty of Rome established a customs union between the signatory countries, but also did much more, 

creating a framework that has broadened and deepened 

over time into the European Union, promoting the free 

movement of people, services, and capital, and common 

policies among the countries in important areas, and that 

has helped secure the spread of peace and stability in Europe; 

Whereas the European Economic Community expanded to 

bring more European countries into closer union, with 

the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Ireland joining in 

1973, Greece joining in 1981, and Spain and Portugal 

joining in 1986; 

Whereas the member countries of the European Economic 

Community agreed to the Single European Act in 1987, 

paving the way for a single European market, and on 

February 7, 1992, the member countries of the European 

Community signed the Treaty of Maastricht, furthering 

the economic and political ties among the member countries and creating the European Union; 

Whereas the European Union has continued to grow so that 

the European Union now comprises 27 countries with a 

population of over 450,000,000, after the successful unification of Germany in 1990 and the joining of Austria, 

Finland, and Sweden in 1995, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, 

Slovakia, and Slovenia in 2004, and Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, and the European Union continues to consider expanding to include other countries central to the 

history and future of Europe; 


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Whereas the European Union has developed a broad acquis 

communautaire covering policies in the economic, security, diplomatic, and political areas, has established a single market, has built an economic and monetary union, 

including the Euro currency, and has built an area of 

freedom, security, peace, and justice, extending stability 

to its neighbors; 

Whereas the European Union played a key role at the end 

of the Cold War in helping to spread free markets, democratic institutions and values, and respect for human 

rights to the former central European communist states; 

Whereas the United States and the European Union have 

shared a unique partnership based on a common heritage, shared values, and mutual interests, and have 

worked together to strengthen international cooperation 

and institutions, to create a more open international 

trading system, to ensure transatlantic and global security, to preserve and promote peace, freedom, and democracy, and to advance human rights; and 

Whereas the United States has supported the European integration process and has consistently supported the objective of European unity and the enlargement of the European Union to promote prosperity, peace, and democracy: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) congratulates the European Union and the 

3 member countries of the European Union on the 

4 50th anniversary of the historic signing of the Trea5 ty of Rome; 


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1 (2) commends the European Union for the crit2 ical role it and its predecessor organizations have 

3 played in spreading peace, stability, and prosperity 

4 throughout Europe; and 

5 (3) affirms the desire of the United States to 

6 strengthen the transatlantic partnership with the 

7 European Union and with all of its member coun8 tries. 

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