However the defence commitment, of Article 4 of the Brussels Treaty, has not been subsumed.

Furthermore, both West Germany and Italy joined Brussels Treaty.

However, the family fortunes had suffered considerably since Portugal had been forced to heed the Brussels Treaty.

However the signatories of the Brussels treaty quickly realised their common defence was not enough against the USSR.

The defence efforts resulting from the Brussels Treaty took form as the Western Union Defence Organisation (see below).

He represented the United Kingdom at the Brussels Treaty Permanent Commission with personal rank of ambassador.

In 1954 West Germany and Italy were invited to join the pact, and accordingly the Brussels Treaty was modified.

The signatories of the Paris Agreements clearly stated their three main objectives in the preamble to the modified Brussels Treaty:

Britain's attachment to her colonies, past and present, was far stronger than her recently acquired Brussels Treaty links with her historic rivals across the Channel.

An agreement expanded the Brussels Treaty of 1948 to include West Germany and Italy, creating the Western European Union.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 was followed by the signing of the Brussels Treaty with a 50-year term in March.

He held that post until the WEU was wound up and the legal basis for the Assembly, the "modified" Brussels Treaty ended in June 2011.

Social and cultural aspects of the Brussels Treaty were handed to the Council of Europe to avoid duplication of responsibilities within Europe.

Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed a treaty selling up the Brussels Treaty Organisation for mutual military aid.

In response, the Brussels Treaty was modified to include West Germany, and to form the Western European Union (WEU).

On 31 March 2010 the German Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Germany's intention to withdraw from the Modified Brussels Treaty.

In October Britain had to yield to the pressure and agree to endorse the establishment under the Brussels Treaty of a study commission on the feasibility of an assembly.

Declaration Inviting Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany to Accede to the Brussels Treaty, October 23, 1954 Full text.

It expanded the Brussels treaty members to include Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal as well as Canada and most notably the United States.

And Britain was quite happy for the Brussels Treaty, suitably rephrased, to be expanded to include West Germany and Italy, since it would involve nothing beyond intergovernmental collaboration.

It was signed by the Brussels Treaty countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and by West Germany and Italy.

In 1967, the Merger Treaty (or Brussels Treaty) combine the institutions of the ECSC and Euratom into that of the EEC.

Located in Paris, the Assembly was founded in 1954 when the 1948 Brussels Treaty on European security and defence cooperation was modified to establish the Western European Union.

In the same year as the Brussels treaty, Sweden presented plans for a Scandinavian defence union (of Sweden, Denmark and Norway) which would be neutral in regards to the proposed NATO.

In 1954 the Western European Union was established amongst the countries included in the Brussels Treaty. This enabled the incorporation of the German Federal Republic, which was allowed to set up a Bundeswehr .