In 1957 six Western European countries signed the Treaty of the European Community (EC Treaty or Treaty of Rome), which over the last fifty years has grown into a European Union of nearly half a billion citizens.
1957年，6個西歐國家簽署了歐洲共同體條約（亦稱羅馬條約），在過去50年間，增長成擁有將近5億公民的歐盟。