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Address given by Antonio Segni (31 March 1957)
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SEGNI, Antonio. Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (Ed.). Per la Comunità economica europea, Discorso tenuto al Teatro Adriano di Roma il 31 marzo 1957. Roma: Servizio dell'informazione, 1957. Translated by the CVCE.
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EEC Treaty
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On 31 March 1957, Antonio Segni, President of the Italian Council and, acting in that capacity, signatory, one week earlier in Rome, of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), delivers an address at the Adriano Theatre in Rome in which he focuses on the successive stages of European integration.
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SPECIAL FILES >> European revival and the Rome Treaties >> The signing and ratification of the Rome Treaties >> The signing of the Rome Treaties
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1957–1968 Successes and crises >> The establishment of the EEC and Euratom >> The signing of the Rome Treaties
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Address given by Antonio Segni (31 March 1957)
It is surely highly significant that the three Treaties — which will have a decisive influence on the history of Europe in the decades and, I should say, centuries to come — were signed in Rome, the city universally hailed as the cradle, the centre of European civilisation. For the purpose of the Treaties is to promote the economic development of that great civilisation so as to restore its political importance in the world. Twenty-seven centuries ago, according to legend, Romulus traced the first outlines of a city, a modest city with nothing about it to suggest that in less than seven hundred years it would become the centre of a vast civilisation extending to every corner of the known world. If the small pastoral and warrior tribe that settled on the hills of Rome achieved such astonishing eminence in a few centuries, it was not by military might alone. The reason for their success was intimately and deeply bound up with the civilisation they had established and brought to the world, based on the ordered and civilised development of a state structure and on legal institutions to which we still subscribe. That great Roman civilisation, classical civilisation as we call it, was not based on force and discipline alone. It was also founded on intrinsic ideas of progress, on profound principles of social and (...) Read more in ENA |
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Paul_Henri Spaak (Rome, 25 March 1957)
The Netherlands Delegation signs the Rome Treaties (Rome, 25 March 1957)
Leading European politicians meet to sign the Rome Treaties
The entry into force of the Rome Treaties
Cartoon by Pinatel on the outcome of the Paris Conference (22 February 1957)
The Italian Delegation signs the Rome Treaties (Rome, 25 March 1957)
Arrival of Joseph Luns in Rome (Rome, 25 March 1957)
Cartoon by Low on relations between the United Kingdom and the EEC (12 July 1957)
Overseas countries and territories
The European Customs Union
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