The Heads of State or Government of the ten Member States of the European Communities, meeting within the European Council, convinced that the unification of Europe in free­dom and respect for its diversity will enable it to make progress and develop its culture and thus contribute to the maintenance of equilibrium in the world and to the preservation of peace, proceeding from the respect for fundamental rights expressed in the laws of the Community resolved to continue the work begun with the Treaties of Paris and Rome and to create a united Europe capable of assuming its responsibilities in the world and of making an international con­tribution comensurate with its traditions and its mission,
• αναλογιζόμενοι τό δρόμο πού έχει διανυθεί προς τήν οικοδόμηση τής Ευρώπης στους τομείς τής οίκονομικής ενώσεως καί τής πολιτικής συνεργασίας, καθώς καί τους πολιτικούς στόχους τής Κοινότητας πού επιδοκι­μάζονται σέ ευρεία κλίμακα άπό τίς ευρωπαϊκές δημο­κρατικές δυνάμεις,