Victor Larock

Victor Joseph Léonard Larock (6 October 1904, in Ans – 24 April 1977, in Madrid) was a Belgian politician for the country's Socialist Party.

At the time of the liberation from Nazi German occupation he was editor of Le Peuple, a job which he took over from Bracops, who was arrested.

He opposed the return of King Leopold III, who decided against participation at the side of the allied powers during the war, contrary to the government in exile.

He rented a building belonging to insurance company Royale Belge at Avenue de la joyeuse entrée 23-27 in Brussels to provisionally accommodate the administration of the European Economic Community.

[7] In his opening address at the EEC and Euratom Councils on 25 January 1958, Larock identified both Communities as a step toward a future integrated European union.

"The greatest service which the European Community can perform for the free world", he stated, "is to give work to those who have none, to generate affluence and to enable all those who help to create it to enjoy it.