One of the oldest common institutions, it began as the " Common Assembly " of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ).

The EPP Group is one of the three oldest groups, dating its origin back to September 1952 and the first meeting of the Parliament's predecessor, the Common Assembly.

On 16 June 1953 the Common Assembly passed a resolution enabling the official formation of political groups, and on 23 June 1953 the constituent declaration of the group was published and the group was officially formed.

It gave birth to the first institutions, such as the High Authority ( now the European Commission ) and the Common Assembly ( now the European Parliament ).

The two new communities were created separately from ECSC, although they shared the same courts and the Common Assembly.

# Source code is converted to Common Intermediate Language, CIL's equivalent to Assembly language for a CPU.

While the treaty for the latter was being drawn up by the Common Assembly, the ECSC parliamentary chamber, the EDC was rejected by the French Parliament.

As a result of energy crises, the Common Assembly proposed extending the powers of the ECSC to cover other sources of energy.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

From 1952 to 1953, he presided the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community.

The Common Assembly proposed extending the powers of the European Coal and Steel Community to cover other sources of energy.

Euratom would foster co-operation in the nuclear field, at the time a very popular area, and would, along with the EEC, share the Common Assembly and Court of Justice of the ECSC, but not its executives.

Prior to 1967, the Common Assembly / European Parliamentary Assembly and the Court of Justice, established by the ECSC, were already shared with the EEC and EAEC, but they had different executives.

According to a 1960 study, at that time Assembly salaries and benefits were so low that in Milwaukee County, positions on the County Board of Supervisors and the Milwaukee Common Council were considered more desirable than seats in the Assembly, and an average of 23 % of Milwaukee legislators did not seek re-election.

The Cossacks had a democratic society where the most important decisions were made during a Common Assembly ( Казачий Круг ).

Up to the 18th century marriages and divorces took place in the Common Assembly ( Казачий Круг ).

If a Cossack wanted to marry a girl, he should have brought her to the Common Assembly and present her to it.

If the Common Assembly gave an approval, the marriage followed.

Later on, Peter I banned marriages and divorces in the Common Assembly, so Cossacks could marry only in the church.

Jean-Daniel Nicoud ( born 31 August 1938 ), is a Swiss computer scientist, noted for inventing of a computer mouse with an optical encoder and the CALM Common Assembly Language for microprocessors.

He adopted the new ideas, and in a pamphlet entitled Le Bon Sens ( a title inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense ) attacked traditional privileges ; he also submitted to the National Constituent Assembly a scheme for the reorganization of the navy, but it was not accepted.

In 1957 the social-economic approach to European integration was capped by the formation among `` the Six '' of a tariff-free European Common Market, and Euratom for cooperation in the development of atomic energy.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Rough-legged Buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ) and the only distantly related European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), which mimics the Common Buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from Northern Goshawks.

Common positions relate to defining a European foreign policy towards a particular third-country such as the promotion of human rights and democracy in Burma, a region such as the stabilisation efforts in the African Great Lakes, or a certain issue such as support for the International Criminal Court.

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

The expression " Common Era " can be found as early as 1708 in English, and traced back to Latin usage among European Christians to 1615, as vulgaris aerae, and to 1635 in English as Vulgar Era.

European Truck Common Rail system with the IFA truck type W50 introduced.

In 2007 Esperanto was the 32nd language that adhered to the " Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment ( CEFR )".

However, Germany is giving increasing attention to coordinating its policies with the European Union through the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

In addition, the creation in 1957 of the European Common Market, with Italy as a founding member, provided more investment and eased exports.

* 1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.

European Pine Vole ( Microtus subterraneus ), a typical Common Kestrel prey since prehistoric times

Some of the voles the Ice Age Common Kestrels ate – such as European Pine Voles ( Microtus subterraneus ) – were indistinguishable from those alive today.

On the one hand, agricultural funds the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union ( CAP ) is spread across more countries ( the Eastern Europe countries have a significant agricultural sector ), on the other, the structural and cohesion funds have declined inevitably due to the Spanish economic success ( since their income has progressed strongly in absolute terms ) and due to the incorporation of less developed countries, lowers the average income per capita ( or GDP per capita ), so that Spanish regions relatively less developed, have come to be in the European average or even above it.

* Multilateral Agreement on the establishment of a European Common Aviation Area

Common areas between apartment buildings were brought back to normality after decades of neglect, while parks, city squares, and sports recreational areas were renovated giving Tirana a more European look.

Since the end of the Cold War, WEU tasks and institutions have been transferred to the Common Security and Defence Policy which is being framed for the geographically larger and more comprehensive European Union.

As the head of France's General Planning Commission, Monnet was the real author of what has become known as the 1950 Schuman Plan to create the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ), forerunner of the Common Market.

In 1896 the Wigan Coal and Iron Company's Eatock Pits employed 484 underground and 89 surface workers whilst the Hewlett Pits, at Hart Common, employed 981 underground and 182 on the surface.

When the Parliament was established in the 1950s as the 78 member " Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community " the smaller states ( Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands ) were concerned about being underrepresented and hence they were granted more seats than their population would have allowed.