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Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and Netherlands were founding members of the European coal and steel committee, a forefather of the EU which was started in 1951. What was known as the European economic committee , later the EU was founded in 1957. Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany and France were founding members.
