The European Union’s policy for environmental intervention has its origin in the international Conferences on the environment and finds a new and unthinkable area of application with respect to the principles that led to its creation.

Europe, which today is still undergoing a long term process of a cultural, structural and political nature, finds in environmental matters a new field of discussion and political maturity.

Even if conceived by great statesmen and men of universal vision, it has quickly had to deal with topics, such as environmental sustainability, which have had an interesting evolution.