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Brandt had a completely infiltrated subversive administration; and Adenauer rejected the division of Germany and cut relations with any nation (except the Soviets) which recognized EG, so they had little to do with each other (other than real or claimed anti-Nazi sentiments). Brandt wanted to surrender as much as necessary in order to reunite Germany.

The EEC “Common Market” paralleled A’s view that Germany had to integrate with the rest of Europe. Europe has been trying to integrate the USSR / neo-Soviet Russia into its economic system since the 1950s, and that integration effort had a lot to do with the economic development of the post-war (particularly late) Soviet era.

The US engineered a leak of tainted technology to the USSR for its construction of that huge long natural gas pipeline from Siberia to western Europe, and the explosions from that brilliant piece of sabotage could be seen from orbit. The OPEC countries viewed w European hydrocarbon purchases from the USSR/Russia as a long-term threat, and beginning early in the 21st c started calculating their crude prices to keep crude price-stable in Euros though still officially priced in US dollars.

The EEC was not about Germany reintegrating with the rest of Europe, but vice-versa. The Treaty of Rome reads just like the modern-day treaties on European Union, down to the intent to create the infamous “ever closer union between the peoples of Europe”, the nature of which was really expounded upon by Adenauer cabinet members such as then Minister of Commerce Hans Christian Seebohm:

Does free Europe want to join Germany? Germany is the heart of Europe, and the limbs must adjust themselves to the heart, not the heart to the limbs.

And subsequent to that, Margaret Thatcher observed the results back in 1995:

You have not anchored Germany to a unified Europe…You have anchored Europe to a newly unified and dominant Germany. In the end my friends, you will find it will not work.