Discuss (c) common commercial policy

The post-war European project (the historical ladder): The Schuman Declaration (9 May 1950) — the coal-and-steel pool's proposal: the Franco- German industries' joint management — "making war not only unthinkable but materially impossible" (the reconciliation-through-integration idea); The ECSC (Treaty of Paris, 1951) — the European Coal and Steel Community: the SIX (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) — the first supranational institution (the High Authority); The relance (1955-57): the Messina process — the integration's extension beyond the heavy industries; The Treaty of Rome (25 March 1957) — the European Economic Community (EEC): the six's customs union-and-common market — the goods' free movement (the customs union: the common external tariff + the internal duties' abolition), the four freedoms' design (goods, persons, services, capital), the common policies' framework (the agriculture, the transport, the trade); the parallel EURATOM (the atomic community); The enlargement's waves (from six to nine-and-onward) and the deepening's acts (the Merger Treaty 1965; the Single European Act 1986 — the single market's 1992 programme- and-the-qualified-majority's extension).