Difference between revisions 5289449 and 5289450 on simplewiki

< previous diff
next diff >
User:Nepaxt/A
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name               = Alcide De Gasperi
| image              = Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg
| order              = [[List of Prime Ministers of Italy|30th]] [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
| monarch            = [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]]<br>[[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| 1blankname1        = Luogotenente
| 1namedata1         = [[Umberto II of Italy|Prince Umberto]]
(contracted; show full)

He is considered to be one of the [[Founding fathers of the European Union]]. From the very beginning of European integration, De Gasperi, Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer met regularly.<ref>[http://www.epp-ed.eu/Activities/docs/cd-rom/degasperi-en.pdf Alcide De Gasperi's humanist and European message],  European People's Party</ref> He helped to organize the [[Council of Europe]] and supported the [[Schuman
n Pla Declaration]], which in 1951 led to the foundation of the [[European Coal and Steel Community]] (ECSC) – a forerunner in the process of European integration. He was named president of the Community in 1954, and although the project eventually failed, De Gasperi helped to develop the idea of the common [[European Defense Community|European defence policy]].<ref>[http://www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=2497 In the beginning was De Gasperi], The Florentine, 4 October 2007</ref> In 1(contracted; show full)[[Category:Italian journalists]]
[[Category:Italian philologists]]
[[Category:Cold War leaders]]
[[Category:Italian anti-communists]]
[[Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:Burials at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura]]
[[Category:Servants of God]]
[[Category:20th-century venerated Christians]]