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.
And so they created the European Economic Community to allow free trade within Europe, so they would be able to have an economy that could stand up to the giants, the USSR and the giant, the United States.
In a sense, this is the beginning of what we saw, a kind of European free trade area that sort of prefigured the European economic community, the common market of like a hundred years later.
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.
The European Economic Community, EEC, also known as the Common Market, was formed by the six founding member states of the ECSC under the treaty establishing the European Economic Community.
The momentum continued when Denmark joined the European economic community now Union in 1973 and when the border in effect disappeared entirely with the advent of the passport free.
In 1958, six founding countries, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, came together to form the European Economic Community.