Dimitrie Gusti - un precursor al Uniunii Europene
Dimitrie Gusti – a Forerunner of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: In 1929-1931, the French foreign minister Aristide Briand tried to organise a European Union in which Romania had to be a founder member. The famous Romanian Social Institute from Bucharest amplified the public debate on the idea of European Union in the milieus of the Romanian political and intellectual elite. The Institute organised public conferences in which the most important ministers, political leaders and university professors expressed their favourable conceptions about the Briand Plan of European Union. The president of the Romanian Social Institute, the academician Dimitrie Gusti, stated in 1930 that the edification of the European Union was possible and it represented an objective sociological necessity. He was for an efficient European Union following the federal model of Switzerland, in order to avoid a second world war. We consider that Dimitrie Gusti belongs to the pan-European interwar trend and to the gallery of the forerunners of the present European Integration.

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