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"Now the past was to be exorcized. Representatives of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg signed a treaty whose aim was 'ever closer union.' There will now be a European Economic Community. All tariffs between the six member states where to be abolished, and there would be free movement of goods, capital, and people across their countries.… The aims were to abolish war between member states and generate future prosperity." [1001 Days]