European Political Co-operation

The European Political Co-operation (EPC) was the common term for the co-ordination of foreign policy between member states of the European Communities (EC) from its inception in 1970 until the EPC was superseded by the new European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) pillar upon the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty in November 1993. == Background == In the 1950s and 1960s, the EC member states tried twice to give the internal market a foreign policy dimension but failed on both attempts.

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