European Community

The following week – a day after the State Opening of Parliament – they will host about 50 heads of government at Blenheim Palace for the European Community Summit.

The EU - called the European Community when Delors took the helm - grew from 10 nations to 12 during his tenure, with a clear promise of the far greater expansion that has since taken place.

The EU — called the European Community when Delors took the helm — grew from 10 nations to 12 during his tenure, with a clear promise of the far greater expansion that has since taken place.

Under its new leader, what was then the European Community faced enormous challenges including the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and war in the former Yugoslavia.

In the 1980s, the EU, then the European Community, adopted it as its national anthem.