The collective designation of three organizations with common membership: the European Economic Community (Common Market), the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). It was known as the European Community until 1994. It is primarily an economic union with the principal objectives of free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Professional services, social, medical and paramedical, are subsumed under labor. The constituent countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, p842)

Descriptor ID	D005062
MeSH Number(s)	I01.615.500.475
Concept/Terms	European Union European Union European Community Euratom Euratom European Coal and Steel Community European Coal and Steel Community Common Market Common Market EEC Economic Community, European European Economic Community European Common Market Community, European Economic European Atomic Energy Community European Atomic Energy Community

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