欧洲共同体是若干西欧国家在国家垄断资本主义基础上,为共同协调经济和政治关系而建立的国际垄断联盟。共同体创建者根据联邦职能主义理论,通过制订走向一体化的法规和政策,建立一整套共同体机构。逐步消除彼此间贸易和其他经济关系上的国家障碍,促进成员国经济活动和经济政策趋于一致,实现经济一体化;他们认为经济一体化的进程必将推动政治一体化的进程,因此共同体是以关税同盟为起点,向经济联盟发展,最终实现政治联盟。著名的欧洲联邦主义者,欧洲经济共同体执委会首 The European Community is an international monopoly coalition established by several Western European countries on the basis of state monopoly capitalism in order to jointly coordinate economic and political relations. According to federal functionalist theory, community creators set up a set of community institutions through the development of integrated laws and policies. Gradually eliminate the national obstacles in trade and other economic relations with each other and promote the alignment of economic activities and economic policies among Member States to achieve economic integration. They think that the process of economic integration will certainly promote the process of political integration, and therefore the community is Starting from the Customs Union, it will develop into an economic alliance and eventually achieve political alliances. The famous European federalist, the first executive of the European Economic Community