Mitterrand Európai Konföderációs terve

After the fall of the Berlin Wall François Mitterrand launched his European Confederation project on December 31, 1989. His project aimed to offer to the countries of Eastern Europe with the USSR a large European framework of political cooperation following the idea of Charles de Gaulle’s „Europe from Atlantic to Urals” and „European Europe”, without the United States. The idea of the European Confederation could not be realized by several reasons. According to Mr. Jean Musitelli, responsible for the organisation of the Assises of Prague, François Mitterrand was really afraid of the rebirth of nationalisms before the First World War, and the year of 1919, but his idea of the European Confederation, before it had even some chance to be delivered, was not supported by the Americans, who could not leave Europe after the Cold War and George Bush wanted to affirm the American leadership in Europe. Mitterrand’s project was not supported also by the 12 European partners of France because, they wanted the integration of unified Germany into the European Union, which could not help to turn European Countries towards the East in the frame of the Confederation. Finally, the new leaders of the exsatellites of Moscow were afraid of the resettlement of the Communist regimes, and wanted to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic institutions and to get rid rapidly of the Soviet influence.