Unirea Principatelor Române şi concertul european
The Union of the Romanian Principalities and the European Concert

Summary/Abstract: The author aims at assessing the international implications of the Romanian Principalities Union in a particular perspective. Generally, these implications were considered in relation to the positions taken by the major powers who had assumed the collective guarantee on the Romanian Principalities in accordance with the Treaty of March 30, 1856. The intention was to show that, apart from the guarantee commitment, the powers manifested as favourable to the idea of union (France, Prussia, Sardinia, Russia), or simply hostile to this idea (Austria and Great Britain, the latter strongly supporting the Sublime Porte). The novelty of this study is given by the way in which the authors approaches the positions taken by the major powers. This perspective aimed at showing how the European Concert deliberated at that time on the international issues. The “chance” of the Romanians was that, at the time of the Union, the France of Napoleon III, with his Eastern policy directed towards “the construction of the new Europe” was chairing the European Concert.

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