Italia şi eşecul Comunităţii Europene de Apărare, 1950-1954
Italy and the Failure of the European Defence Community, 1950-1954

Summary/Abstract: The European Defence Community (E.D.C.) was a French initiative in the first years of the 1950s. Based on the plan of the French Prime Minister, René Pleven, the Pleven Plan proposed the creation of a European army, with the involvement of German units, to be placed under a single military and political European authority. This proposal sparked a little enthusiasm in Italy, and even more it was regarded as a French strategy to delay the German militarization. Italy’s role in the negotiations was minor. The failure to ratify the new European Community by the French Parliament in 1954 left this project of defence integration stillborn, but paved the way for another solution for the rearmament of Germany: the creation of Western European Union (WEU), as a subgroup of NATO, including Germany and Italy. Also, after the failure of EDC it began a diplomatic process which led to the settling of Trieste issue.

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