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=**The period of the Six** = 

 Right after the Second World War the head of states and other important figures of the European society came up to the idea of creating an institution that could gather the European state and prevent future instability and collision between those states. The first resolution at which they came to was the //European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)//, that was composed by 6 members: **Belgium**, **Germany**, **France**, **Italy**, **Luxemburg** and the **Netherlands**.

 Source: [|www.ena.lu]  On May 1960 the //European Free Trade Area (EFTA)// comes into effect and the states involved in it were seven and namely //Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, UK//.


 
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