Mitterrand Európai Konföderációs terve
Mitterand’s European Confederate Plan

31 December 1989 – 13-15 June 1991

Author(s): Zoltán Garadnai
Subject(s): Cultural history, Diplomatic history, Political history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Új-és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék
Keywords: François Mitterrand; József Antall; Jean Musitelli; Vaclav Havel; Prague Conference; European Confederation; France; Hungary; Poland; Czech-oslovakia; USSR; United States;
Summary/Abstract: After the fall of the Berlin Wall François Mitterrand launched his Europe-an Confederation project on December 31, 1989. His project aimed to of-fer to the countries of Eastern Europe with the USSR a large European framework of political cooperation following the idea of Charles de Gaulle’s „Europe from Atlantic to Urals” and „European Europe”, without the United States. The idea of the European Confederation could not be realized by several reasons. According to Mr. Jean Musitelli, responsible for the organisation of the Assises of Prague, François Mitterrand was real-ly afraid of the rebirth of nationalisms before the First World War, and the year of 1919, but his idea of the European Confederation, before it had even some chance to be delivered, was not supported by the Ameri-cans, who could not leave Europe after the Cold War and George Bush wanted to affirm the American leadership in Europe. Mitterrand’s project was not supported also by the 12 European partners of France because, they wanted the integration of unified Germany into the European Union, which could not help to turn European Countries towards the East in the frame of the Confederation. Finally, the new leaders of the ex-satellites of Moscow were afraid of the resettlement of the Communist regimes, and wanted to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic institutions and to get rid rap-idly of the Soviet influence.

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