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Interview with Antonio Segni from the Corriere della Sera (15 June 1962)
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Press article
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A.A., Segni illustra la portata delle decisioni di Bruxelles, in Corriere della Sera. 15.06.1962, No 13; anno 1, p. 1. Translated by the CVCE.
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| Keywords |
customs union, tariff reduction
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On 15 June 1962, Antonio Segni, the Italian Foreign Minister, grants the Milanese daily newspaper Corriere della Sera an interview on the implications of the second stage of the European Customs Union.
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| Location in the digital library |
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1957–1968 Successes and crises >> The introduction of common policies >> European Customs Union >> The setting up of the Customs Union
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Interview with the Foreign Minister Segni discusses the scope of the decisions in Brussels
‘By strengthening and speeding up the economic community we have completed a great work of peace, worthy of every sacrifice’
Rome, 15 January, evening. The Foreign Minister, Antonio Segni, met our editor, who asked him about the outcome of the last meeting of the Council of Ministers of the European Community in Brussels. The questions that we put to the Minister and the answers that he was kind enough to give us are reproduced below. Question: How important is the transition to the second stage of the European Economic Community? Answer: ‘I have to go back to the Treaty signed in Rome less than five years ago (25 March 1957). As set out in its Preamble, one of the essential goals of the Treaty is to ensure the social and economic progress of the contracting countries and, as a basis for that progress, ever closer union between the peoples of Europe. To prevent this union from being an empty formula, the Treaty does not establish a simple customs union (i.e. the abolition of customs duties between the contracting countries), but an economic union, in the sense that it creates the instruments and rules for union in all economic sectors (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
The problem of Iberian agricultural products
The Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
Cartoon by Simon on the proliferation of plans for a customs union in Western Europe (26 November 1949)
Treaty establishing the EEC _ Articles relating to the Customs Union (25 March 1957)
Joint Statement by Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (24 November 1958)
A European Customs Union
Walter Hallstein, Customs Union and Free Trade Area (1959)
Report on the removal of customs barriers in Europe (Strasbourg, 26 November 1951)
Demonstration in favour of the Customs Union (Liège, May 1953)
Cartoon by Opland on the plans for a customs union in Western Europe (3 December 1949)
The European Customs Union
Benelux
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