eunion1-1, Exercise 2: Record, claim or Euromyth

Model answer:

(a) Record. The date of the Treaties of Rome (1957) is a checkable fact in the treaty record and reference works.
(b) Claim. It may rest on a real fact (no war between EU members in that period), but it depends on what is counted and what is credited for the peace (the EU, NATO, the Cold War balance, and so on), so the assumptions need examining. It is not a simple yes or no.
(c) Euromyth, in a stretched form. The EU did adopt marketing standards that put bananas in quality classes (including a curvature description for the top class), but there was no ban on selling bent bananas, and many such standards were relaxed or repealed around 2009 (check the details).