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European Integration
Six states pool coal and steel (1951); step by step this grows into the single market, the euro and today's EU of 27.
Open in the interactive tree →The Treaty of Paris created the European Coal and Steel Community, the Treaty of Rome (1957) added a common market and the Maastricht Treaty (1993) the European Union. Its laws, from data protection to the AI Act, now shape practice far beyond Europe.
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- Data Protection (GDPR)2018
- Platform Regulation (DMA/DSA)2023-2026DMA and DSA are EU regulations made by its single-market institutions
- EU AI Act2024-2028The AI Act is EU law, made by the institutions that grew from the ECSC
- Digital Euro2026The euro is the currency of the EU monetary union