- L’Italia repubblicana in cammino
- Edited by Piero Bini, Antonio Magliulo, Letizia Pagliai
La (mancata) costruzione di un’infrastruttura per la sovranità europea (1947-1957)
- Fabio Masini
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1.07
The paper explores the multifaceted reasons why, despite excellent premises in the early Fifties, the European integration embraced a direction away from the functionalist approach tending to increase competences to the supranational level of economic and political governence. It illustrates the failed attempts, after 1952, due to the evolving interests of the USA, to establish a European Monetary Fund, an investment fund to support industrial transformation, a common fund against unemployment, and an enlarged budget endowed with genuine own resources. All initiatives, togewther with the failed (much more famous) European defence Community, that would have strenthened a common European identity.
- Keywords:
- European integration failures,
- European investment fund,
- European Reserve Fund,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
La (mancata) costruzione di un’infrastruttura per la sovranità europea (1947-1957)
Authors
Fabio Masini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1.07
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Book Title
L’Italia repubblicana in cammino
Book Subtitle
Ricostruzione, crescita, instabilità
Editors
Piero Bini, Antonio Magliulo, Letizia Pagliai
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
264
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0775-1
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979-12-215-0774-4
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Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919