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{{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        = Lieutenant
| 1namedata1         = [[Umberto II of Italy|Prince Umberto]]
(contracted; show full)ɡasperi}}; 3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an [[Italy|Italian]] statesman and politician who founded the [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] party.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/153503/Alcide-De-Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi (Italian statesman)]. britannica.com</ref> From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year term in office remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics.
   A conservative Catholic, he was one of the [[Founding fathers of the European Union]], along with the other Italian [[Altiero Spinelli]], the [[France|Frenchman]] [[Robert Schuman]] and the West German Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]].⏎
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==Early years==
De Gasperi was born in [[Pieve Tesino]] in [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]], which at that time belonged to [[Austria-Hungary]], now part of the [[Trentino]] in Italy. His father was a local police officer of limited financial means. From 1896 De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement. In 1900 he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in [[Vienna]], where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement. He was very much inspired by the '&#x(contracted; show full)[[Category:Italian journalists]]
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