European Economic Community

基本解释

He believed that the European Economic Community should consolidate.
他认为欧洲经济共同体应该加强。
This sounds unmistakably like the charter for the European Economic Community (EEC), the forerunner of the present European Union.
这听上去就像是欧盟前身――欧共体宪章的翻版。
At the start of the 1970s, half a century after its part of the island achieved independence, Ireland joined the European Economic Community (as the European Union was then called).
在上世纪七十年代初，也就是爱尔兰获得独立的半个世纪之后，爱尔兰加入了欧共体（欧盟的前身）。

It was mildly important when the then European Economic Community was just a small common market.
ECONOMIST: Bureaucracies grow faster than they can be pruned
In 1972, 83% of Irish voters endorsed the decision to join what was then the European Economic Community.
ECONOMIST: Ireland
Belatedly, the country embraced free trade with Britain and, by joining the European Economic Community in 1973, with much of the rest of Europe.
ECONOMIST: The luck of the Irish

the former W European economic association created by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 in 1967 its executive and legislative bodies merged with those of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community to form the European Community (now part of the European Union) (Informal name Common Market abbr: EEC)