Stresa - Definition

Stresa is a small town of about 5,000 inhabitants on the shores of the Lago (Lake) Maggiore in Italy.

It most significant for holding two separate international conferences:

• In 1935, the UK, Italy and France decided to form the Stresa front to combat and contain Nazi Germany and re-affirm the Treaty of Locarno.
• In 1958, the foundations for what was later to become the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community were laid down in Stresa.