‘I hope that it’s not just for outgoings! … Will it also bring me some revenue?’ On 10 July 1957, in the Parisian daily newspaper Combat, the cartoonist, Pinatel, comments on the debates held in the French Parliament on the ratification of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) and illustrates the gulf which separates the political leaders (from left to right: Pierre Mendès France, Christian Pineau and Robert Schuman) and the general public with regard to the advantages of the new European Treaties.