On 15 February 1952 in Geneva, Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia signed the Agreement constituting a Council of Representatives of European States for planning an international laboratory and organising other forms of cooperation in nuclear research.

On 1 July 1953, in Paris, Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia sign the Final Act of the Conference to establish the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

On 1 July 1953, the Convention establishing the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is signed in Paris.

On 1 July 1953 in Paris, under the watchful eye of Miss Thorneycroft, attachée to the Secretariat of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Professor Gustavo Colonetti, head of the Italian delegation, signs the Convention establishing the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). In the background, the Swiss and French physicists Peter Preiswerk and Lew Kowarski can be seen.

In January 1954, the contributions paid by or due from the Member States are recorded in the minutes of the eighth meeting of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Für Ministerialrat Dr. Alexander Hocker, Bundesministerium für Atomkernenergie und Wasserwirtschaft, gelten die erzielten Erfolge von CERN, der Europäischen Organisation für Kernforschung, als ein Beispiel europäischer Zusammenarbeit.

On 23 September 1966, the Italian Government sends a note to Marcel Fischbach, Luxembourg Minister for Middle Classes and the Armed Forces and Deputy Foreign Minister, in which it calls for a large-scale technological and scientific Marshall Plan to be launched in Europe, within the institutional framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), to close the technological gap in Western Europe compared with the United States and the Soviet Union.