EEC
Speech parts
1. EEC - Noun
2. EEC - Proper noun
Meaning
an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
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Examples
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.
We believe there should be reforms in the EEC which would benefit all the members. If these were not achieved, our policy is to preserve the ultimate option of withdrawing Britain. That option would not, this time, need a referendum, as it did before.
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union
According to Sergei Rumas, the EEC Board includes specialists that should look into these matters and oblige a country to remove barriers.
After leaving the EEC, Greenland signed a special treaty with it, granting it special access to the market as a constituent country of Denmark, which remains a member.