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further strengthen the Western European political and economic integration, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, than, (lssdjt.cn) Lu 6 April 8, 1965 the signing of the Treaty of Brussels, the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community Council and its implementing agencies of the three organizations decided to merge to form a unified European Community. France and the other five countries are differences of opinion on the Common Agricultural Policy, until July 1, 1967, three organizations before the merger. The United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark joined in 1973. In January 1981, Greece became the 10 member states. The organization's headquarters in Brussels. The main institutions: the Council of Ministers of the European Community, the Commission of the European Communities, the European Council, the European Parliament, and so on. Since the founding of the European Community, has been moving in the direction of the economic union and political union development in the economic, basically achieve internal Cancel industrial products, tariffs among member countries; unified external import tariffs. The implementation of the common agricultural policy, the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Fund, issued a unified currency, and to develop a common economic and fiscal policy. On the political front, the Heads of Government of the member countries met three times a year to coordinate domestic and foreign policies, adopt a common position on major international issues. Very active in the Community's external relations, it established formal relations with more than 100 countries in the world, in the community of more than 110 embassies.