“…"How do Europeans feel about the EU 60 years after the Treaty of Rome? Are they more distant and critical than ever, as it is often suggested in the public debate? …”

“…Fifty years after the Treaty of Rome laid the foundations of today's EU, the euro is the biggest and most visible success story in the process of European integration."…”

“…"In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, this volume addresses the lessons of EU history, its current challenges and its future perspectives. …”

“…The volume endeavours to explain the adaptability of the EU legal order provided that the legal instruments at the Union's disposal appear to be identical to when the Treaty of Rome came into force 60 years ago. It also explores the challenges that the producing and quality of acts pose for the EU's legal order, such as alterations to institutional balance and the roles of the different institutional actors and challenges to the rule of law."…”

“…The capacity of EU institutions to help shape gender relations in its Member States has been present since its earliest days (Verloo and Lombardo, 2007). Although the Treaty of Rome was signed at a time when the gender equality landscape looked substantially different from the contemporary one, it nevertheless contained a clause on equal pay between women and men, a precursor to the legislation and policy approaches that emerged throughout Europe in later years. …”

“…"The ink on the Treaties of Rome of 25 March 1957 was hardly dry when the Commission set itself up for business on 1 January 1958 in Brussels with an agenda covering all areas of the economic life of the six founder countries: Germany, France, Italy and the three Benelux countries of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. …”

“…In illustrating informal norms and testing how they work, Kleine provides the first systematic analysis, based on new material from national and European archives and other primary data, of the parallel development of the formal rules and informal norms that have governed the EU from the 1958 Treaty of Rome until today."…”

“…During negotiations for the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s, social policy was viewed as the exclusive provenance of the member states. …”