The 1955 Messina and Taormina Conference was decisive: it marked the desire to go beyond mere economic cooperation, laying the foundations for the Common Market. Since then, the EU has expanded its institutions and competences, facing crisis and challenges, balancing federalist impulses and sovereignities, while keeping the goal of integration and peace firmly in sight.
Moderated by Angela Villani, Full Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Messina.
