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/^t/For over 50 years, since the 1940s, when Jean Monnet and Robert Schumann first dreamed of connecting the coal and steel industries of France and Germany under a common authority, every phase of the integration of Europe has been accompanied by the cries of those who said: "it'll never happen". And the globalization has gone on irrespective of that. The integration of European countries took up almost four decades. In 1957 the European Economic Community (EEC) was established. In 1967 there was created the European Community (EC). And finally, in 1992 after signing the Maastricht Treaty the EC became the European Union.