... the European Union (Maastricht treaty) came into force on November 1st 1993, and on this date it became legally correct to refer to the European Community- changing from the European Economic Community to signify that there has been a change of emphasis towards non-economic provisions such as citizenship. The original three communities (the European Coal and Steel community, European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community) were subsumed into only two communities; EURATROM (European Atomic Energy Community) and the European Community (as the policy areas of coal and steel transferred into the E.C treaty). Thus we now have two communities, but the E.C is the most important pillar of the E.U and the E.C treaty, as amended by the treaty on European Union, still dominates. The Post- Maastricht European Union is composed of these 3 communities which form the first and central pillar of the E.U plus two other 'pillars' or ...

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