Definition: The collective designation of three organizations with common membership: the European Economic Community (Common Market), the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). It was known as the European Community until 1994. It is primarily an economic union with the principal objectives of free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Professional services, social, medical and paramedical, are subsumed under labor. The constituent countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, p842)
name specific European country if pertinent CATALOG: Use NAF entry
Other names European Economic Community; European Community; European Common Market; European Coal and Steel Community; European Atomic Energy Community; Euratom; Common Market; EEC; Economic Community, European; Community, European Economic
