@article{2018:cuccia:the_gensch,
title = {The Genscher-Colombo Plan: A forgotten page in the European Integration History},
year = {2018},
note = {In the early 1980s, against the backdrop of a protracted global
economic downturn, Europe seemed to be at the crossroads between more
integration and political inertia. In this context, the present essay
analyses the "Genscher-Colombo Plan", i.e. the initiative launched by
German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and his Italian
counterpart, Emilio Colombo, for the revival and the renewal of the
integration process. Based on research in several German and Italian
archives, as well as on documents of the Presidency of the French
Republic and of the French ministry of Foreign affairs, the paper
analyses both the obstacles and the points of contention with which
the supporters of the initiative were confronted. Thus, it sheds new
light on a relatively unexplored but potentially promising field of
research. This article supports a balanced approach that neither
overestimates the achievements of the initiative nor ignores its
contribution to better-known developments in the European integration
process.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {59--78},
author = {CUCCIA, Deborah},
volume = {24},
number = {1}
}