He believed that the European Economic Community should consolidate.

他认为欧洲经济共同体应该加强。

To represent this broader remit, the European Economic Community became the European Union in 1993.

为了代表这一更广泛的职权范围，欧洲经济共同体于 1993 年成为欧盟。

Spain didn't join the United Nations until 1955 and didn't join the European Economic Community, the precursor of the European Union until 1986 decades after it was initially formed.

西班牙直到 1955 年才加入联合国，直到 1986 年在欧洲经济共同体成立几十年后才加入该组织，欧洲经济共同体是欧盟的前身。

In 1958, six founding countries, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, came together to form the European Economic Community.

1958年，比利时、德国、法国、意大利、卢森堡和荷兰这六个创始国共同组成了欧洲经济共同体。

It would ultimately take over twenty years for Britain to realise it was falling hopelessly behind its neighbours in Western Europe economically before Britain joined what was by then the European Economic Community.

在英国加入当时的欧洲经济共同体之前，英国最终花了二十多年的时间才意识到自己在经济上正在无可救药地落后于西欧邻国。