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THE EUROPEAN ROAD TO LIGHT THE HISTORY OF ITALY IN THE UE

ITALIAN STUDENTS TEAM & Made by teacher Caterina Fassari

• Italy has been one of the founding countries of the European Union since 1951, when together with Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

On 25 March 1957, our country hosted a key event for the process of European integration, namely the signing, in Rome, of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC).

1941 Poster for a free Europe • In the middle of the Second World War, Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi, at the border on the island of Ventotene, write the Manifesto For a free and united Europe, which lays the foundations for the process of unification of Europe.

1-2 June 1955 European Atomic Energy Community

• The Conference is held in Messina, which lays the foundations for the Treaties of Rome. After the failure of the European Defence Community, the six Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the ECSC defined the “European relaunch” and decided to pursue economic integration, accepting the idea of a common market and approving the creation of a European Atomic Energy Community.

25 March 1957 Signing of the Treaties of Rome

3-11 July 1958 Common agricultural policy

• In Stresa, the founding countries decide on the broad outlines of the future agricultural policy (CAP), which will operational from January 1962.

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1-2 December 1975 European Parliament by universal suffrage

• The European Council meeting in Rome shall decide on the election of the European Parliament by universal suffrage.

28-29 June 1985 Intergovernmental Conference

• In Milan, the European Council approved the Commission’s White Paper on the Internal Market and decided to set up an intergovernmental conference to examine the possibility of institutional reform.

25 March 2017 Rome Declaration

• 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome. The Heads of State and Government of the 27 EU countries sign the “Rome Declaration”