NICOLAE TITULESCU AND THE BRIAND PROJECT OF EUROPEAN UNION
NICOLAE TITULESCU AND THE BRIAND PROJECT OF EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian diplomat Nicolae Titulescu was elected twice consecutively in 1030 and 1931 as president of the General Assembly of the Society of Nations, a unique event in the history of the Genevese institution whose major mission was to preserve world peace. Nicolae Titulescu’s most important initiative in this position was the support given to the European Union Project initiated by the French foreign affairs minister Aristide Briand in 1930. According to the latter, the European Union had to be an organisation for political and economic cooperation among the European states, within which the member states would preserve their sovereignty. The failure of the actions that had as a goal to overpass the difficulties generated by the worldwide economic crisis and also the failure to create the European Union in the form proposed at that time proved both the lack of desire to cooperate and the mutual lack of trust, especially in the case of the great powers of that time.

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