At the conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Maurice Faure, former French Junior Foreign Minister and former Head of the French Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, refers to the climate of confidence between the governments in Paris and Bonn in the mid-1950s and to its importance for the success of European revival.