From the European Community to the European Union

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Its task was to develop proposals for expanding Europe's cooperation within the Community and terms of European political cooperation and to anticipate possible areas for moving towards the European Union. The second concept was to develop steps to increase attention to the needs and interests of ordinary citizens. Once again, formulating concrete proposals was entrusted to the ad hoc committee, which began work on November 7, 1984, under the chairmanship of Pietro Adonnino. His mandate included a range of areas for joint action, such as education, health care, the judiciary, the fight against drugs and terrorism, and finding areas for progress towards the European Union.
The activities of these two committees formed the basis of discussions between the leaders of states at the meeting in Milan in June 1985, which charted the directions towards the European Union by creating an economic zone without internal borders, strengthening European political cooperation by combining efforts in the field of security and protection, and improving the decision-making mechanism by expanding the rights of the European Parliament.
An essential step towards creating the European Union was the Single European Act, which entered into force on July 1, 1987. The European Union Act (EEA) was the first significant revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act targets the European Community to create a common market by December 31, 1992. It formulates the principles of European Political Cooperation, the predecessor of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.
Its preamble reiterated the main goal - creating the European Union - which was to be embodied by the European Economic Community and European Political Cooperation. In December 1990, the Community countries' leaders held two intergovernmental conferences, the first to work out steps to establish an economic and monetary union and remove obstacles to a political union. These two conferences were the Agreement on the European Union, signed by Maastricht's participating countries on February 7, 1992.
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