On 25 June 1975, the European Commission publishes its report on transforming the whole complex of the relations of Member States into a European Union.

On 29 March 1977, in German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt represents Europe of the Nine as 'Europe en route', bogged down by a succession of governmental crises and internal discord.

In May 1977, as celebrations are held to mark the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaties, cartoonist Hans Geisen takes an ironic look at the slow process of European unification.