The original European Economic Community, created by the Treaty of Rome in 1957, was, as the name indicates, economic in nature. The Treaty itself was hard-headed, grounded in the converging economic interests of France and Germany, with the Benelux countries and Italy rounding out the basis of a new European economy.
顾名思义，1957年罗马条约创立的初始欧洲经济共同体主要是经济性质。条约本身非常理智，以法德两国的共同经济利益为基础，与比荷卢等国及意大利共同奠定了欧洲经济的根基。