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 this interview, Bino Olivi, former official in the Directorate-General for Competition Policy of the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), outlines the economic implications of the Rome Treaties for Italy and recalls the political debate on this issue which took place at the time between the various Italian political parties.