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On May 29, 1956, the foreign ministers of the Six (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands) approved the "Spaak Report" and agreed to initiate an Intergovernmental Conference to prepare two new treaties (EEC and EURATOM). The IGC was launched on 26 June 1956 and ended with a meeting on 25 March 1957 in the Horatii and Curiatii Room, on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, where representatives of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the Treaties of Rome consisting of:

• the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC);
• the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom);
• a Convention on certain institutions common to the EEC, the EAEC and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

Adenauer, Konrad: Speech on the occasion of formal signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25.03.1957, (German)

Bech, Joseph: Speech on the occasion of formal signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25.03.1957, (French)

Luns, Joseph: Speech on the occasion of formal signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25.03.1957, (Dutch)

Martino, S.E.: Speech on the occasion of formal signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25.03.1957, (Italian)

Pineau, Christian: Speech on the occasion of formal signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25.03.1957, (French)

Spaak, Paul-Henri: Speech on the occasion of formal signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25.03.1957, (French)