DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Euratom Treaty, Spaak Report, European Atomic Energy Community
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Successive severe winters led to fuel crisis + bad harvests + foreign reserves were drained by the lack of exports political cooperation might be a solution. Military threat from the ussr = beginning of the cold war marshall plan (aid for post- war reconstruction) + truman doctrine (military support to countries resisting aggression) But some organisations were set up which involved close cooperation between. European and other states, such as the oecd (org for economic cooperation and. Development), the nato and the council of europe. 1951: benelux, france, italy and germany form the ecsc by signing the treaty of. The ms declared it to be the first step towards a federal. 1957: eec treaty was signed on the basis on the spaak report on the feasibility of. 1957: 6 members of the ecsc and eec signed the treaty establishing euratom, agreeing to cooperate in the development of the peaceful use of atomic energy.
