EU By Siciliano 1950 Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Germany and Netherlands create the coal and steal community. 1957 The treaty of Rome creates the european econonic community (eec) 1960 start economic growth 1961 Grece, Spain and Portugal joins the EEC 1973 Danemark, Ireland and UK join the EEC 1989 The fall of the Berlin wall 1990 Est and west Germany are united 1993 EEC becomes EU 2000 Countries adopt euro 2004 Ten countries join EU 2007 Romania and Bulgaria join EU 2008 Francial crisis 2012 EU is awarded the nobel peace prize 2020 brexit