(abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism) Initialism of European Economic Community, forerunner of the European Community (EC) and the European Union (EU).
Over the following decades, the EEC became the European Union, and expanded from the original six nations to today’s 27 members, from Finland in the north to Malta in the south. 2012 September 6, Bryony Jones, “Why is unity so important to Europe?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2016: