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The Treaty of Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treaty of the Western Union (WU) between 1948 and 1954, when it was amended as the Modified Brussels Treaty (MTB) and served as the founding treaty of the Western European Union (WEU) until its termination in 2010. The treaty provided for the organisation of ...
The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, [1] was a European treaty which unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC). The treaty was signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965
The Western Union (WU), also referred to as the Brussels Treaty Organisation (BTO), [1] was the European military alliance established between France, the United Kingdom (UK) and the three Benelux countries in September 1948 in order to implement the Treaty of Brussels signed in March the same year.
Signatories of the Treaty of Brussels (1948). 1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force. [1]: 978 17 March – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
It expanded the Brussels treaty members to include Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal as well as Canada and most notably the United States. Military integration in NATO sped up following the first Soviet atomic bomb test and the start of the Korean War which prompted a desire for the inclusion in NATO of West Germany . [ 2 ]
The Western Union's founding Treaty of Brussels was amended at the 1954 Paris Conference as a result of the failure of the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community to gain French ratification: The General Treaty (German: Deutschlandvertrag) of 1952 formally named the EDC as a prerequisite of the end of Allied occupation of Germany ...
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5 March: The Brussels-Capital Region adopts its first flag. 10–12 May: Riots erupt [nl; fr] in Forest in response to police violence, leading to the arrest of 273 people. 12 December: The Jeugdtheater Brussel is established after uncertainty regarding youth theatre within the Beursschouwburg. 1992 27 March: Riots erupt in Cureghem/Kuregem.