In 1856 Franco-Russian-British peace was signed at the Congress of Paris. Cavour succeeded in having one of the sessions expressly devoted to discussing the "Italian problem": He was able to publicly defend the idea that the repression of the reactionary governments and the The policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were the real culprits of the revolutionary anxieties that were forming throughout the peninsula and, above all, that these revolts in Italy could degenerate into a revolutionary threat to all the governments of Europe, thereby increasing the Franco-British concern in the "Italian problem".