On 24 March 1957, the Italian Communist daily newspaper L’Unità criticises the process of European integration and sets out the position of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) on the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 25 March 1957, in the Italian daily newspaper Il nuovo Corriere della Sera, the Italian economist Libero Lenti describes the implications, particularly for Italian trade, of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) signed that day in Rome by the representatives of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

In diesem Interview erläutert Bino Olivi, ehemaliger Beamter in der Generaldirektion Wettbewerb der Kommission der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG), die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen der Römischen Verträge für Italien und spricht über die politische Debatte jener Zeit zwischen den italienischen Parteien über diese Frage.