Genscher-Colombo Plan

Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Photo: www.hdg.de/.../index.html)

Genscher-Colombo Plan

The German Liberal Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and his Italian Christian Democrat colleague, Emilio Colombo, proposed to weaken the veto power and make a stronger political co-operation for the EU in 1981. This was agreed to in the "Stuttgart-declaration" in June 1983.