- Venice Conference
The Venice Conference was held in
Venice on 29 and30 May 1956 . The Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of theEuropean Coal and Steel Community met at the Cini Foundation on the Venetian island ofSan Giorgio Maggiore to discuss theSpaak Report of theSpaak Committee . At the conference the Foreign Ministers explained the views of the ECSC governments on the proposals in the Spaak Report. As a result of the conference they decided to organize theIntergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom in order to prepare for establishment of acommon market and a European Community for the peaceful use ofatomic energy .The conference was chaired by
Christian Pineau , French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and attended byWalter Hallstein (Federal Republic of Germany ),Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium ),Maurice Faure , French State Secretary for Foreign Affairs,Gaetano Martino (Italy ),Joseph Bech (Luxembourg ) andJohan Willem Beyen (Netherlands ).ee also
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Messina Conference
*History of the European Union ource
* [http://www.ena.lu/europe/formation-community/venice-conference-1956.htm The Venice Conference] (29 and 30 May 1956)
* [http://www.ena.lu/europe/formation-community/press-release-venice-1956.htm Press release] (Venice, 30 May 1956)
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