This publication is both a historical record and a commemoration covering the early years of the European Commission from 1958 to 1972, before the first enlarge

"The ink on the Treaties of Rome of 25 March 1957 was hardly dry when the Commission set itself up for business on 1 January 1958 in Brussels with an agenda cov

The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal