In this interview, Pasquale Antonio Baldocci, former diplomat in the Treaties Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, refers to the ceremony held to mark the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) on 25 March 1957 in Rome.

In this interview, Pasquale Antonio Baldocci, former diplomat in the Treaties Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recalls the hostility of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and of some Italian Socialists towards the process of European integration in the 1950s and 1960s.

In this interview, Pasquale Antonio Baldocci, former diplomat in the Treaties Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, comments on the attitude of the Vatican authorities and Italian public opinion towards the European integration process.

In this interview, Pasquale Antonio Baldocci, former diplomat in the Treaties Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recalls the personality of Gaetano Martino, former Italian Foreign Minister, and how his actions contributed to the revival of the European integration process in the mid-1950s.

In this interview, Pasquale Antonio Baldocci, former diplomat in the Treaties Department of the Italian Foreign Ministry, refers to the symbolic significance of the Capitol in Rome for the ceremony held to mark the signing, on 25 March 1957, of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) following the Val Duchesse negotiations on European revival.