PROPOSAL OF A MANIFESTO FOR A FEDERAL EUROPE: SOVEREIGN, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL

The Proposal of a Manifesto for a Federal Europe: sovereign, social and ecological, was an idea born in 2021on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Ventotene Manifesto and during the development of the Conference on the Future of Europe. A total of 23 drafters (representatives of political organizations, federalist activists, academics and experts) and 60 supporters have set proposals inspired in the heritage of the Ventotene Manifesto in today´s context: the need to update the European institutional framework in a federal path and improving the global governance; the challenges resulted from the war in Ukraine; the health emergency and the climate crisis; the digital revolution; and the challenges to Human Rights as consequence of deepening inequalities. The proposal presented captures a diverse and constructive approach to culminate the necessary European federation.

After its first presentation on the 2 nd of March 2022 in Brussels, the Proposal of a Manifesto for a Federal Europe: sovereign, social and ecological was launched in the Island of Ventotene (Italy) on the 29th of August 2022, in occasion of the federalist seminar yearly organised by the Istituto Altiero Spinelli, by a delegation of the Spinelli Group Members in the European Parliament and federalist activists. Particularly:
Daniel Freund, President of the Spinelli Group (Greens, Germany), Salvatore de Meo (EPP, Italy), Domènec Ruiz Devesa (S&D,Spain), Guy Verhofstad (Renew, Belgium), Helmut Scholz (Left, Germany), Pietro Bartolo, (S&D, Italy), Fabio Massimo Castaldo (Non-Attached), Brando Benifei (S&D, Italy), Alin Mituta (Renew Europe) and Thijs Reuten (S&D, The Netherlands) – and representatives of different proeuropean organisations, such as the Italian Council of the European Movement, Group Europe, the Union of European Federalists in Spain, Belgium and France.

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Drafters & Contributors:

  • Domènec Ruiz Devesa, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Board Member of the Spinelli Group, Vicepresident of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)
  • Guy Verhofstadt, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Co-founder and Board Member of the Spinelli Group, Co-chair of the Executive Board of the
    Conference for the Future of Europe
  • Daniel Freund, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), President of the Spinelli Group, Vice President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament
  • Salvatore De Meo, Member of the European Parliament (EPP)
  • Pietro Bartolo, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Alin Mituta, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament (The Left), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Member of the European Parliament (Non-Attached), Member of the Spinelli Group, Member of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)
  • Pier Virgilio Dastoli, President of the Italian Council of the European Movement, Former collaborator of Altiero Spinelli
  • Laura Maria Cinquini, Former Ambassador, citizen ́s panel of the Conference on
    the Future of Europe
  • Paolo Acunzo, Member of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)
  • Nicola Vallinoto, Member of the World Federalist Movement (WFM)
  • Tommaso Visone, Associate Professor of History of Political Doctrines, Member of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)
  • Antonio Longo, Member of the Federal Committee of the Movimento Federalista Italiano (MFE), and Director the Ventotene Lighthouse
  • Jaap Hoeksma Philosopher of law, Director of Euroknow
  • Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Writer, Former Member of the European Parliament, Co-founder of the Spinelli Group
  • Enrique Barón Crespo, Former President of the European Parliament, Union
    of Europeanists and Federalists (UEF) Spain President
  • Hans-Gert Pöttering, Former President of the European Parliament, President of the Board, House of European History
  • Luca Visentini, Secretary General, European Trade Union Confederation
  • Danuta Hübner, Member of the European Parliament (EPP), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Sophie in ‘t Veld, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Pierre Larrouturou, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member
    of the Spinelli Group
  • Lucio Levi, Former President of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE), Professor of Political Science
  • Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga, President of the Spanish Federal Council of the
    European Movement, Professor of International Relations
  • Paolo Ponzano, Author, University professor, and Member, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)
  • Guido Montani, Former President of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE), Professor of Political Economy
  • Domenico Moro, Member of the Federal Committee, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)
  • François Leray, President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) France
  • Alberto Alemanno, Professor Jean Monnet, EU law
  • Carlos María Bru Purón, Former Member of the European Parliament
  • Andreas Bummel, Author, Co-founder and director of Democracy Without Borders and the International Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
  • Fernando Iglesias, Co-President of the World Federalist Movement, Member of Parliament, Argentina

Participating colleagues of the Spinelli Group & other supporters

  • Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Board Member of the Spinelli Group, Vice-President of the European Movement International
  • Thijs Reuten, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Jonás Fernández Álvarez, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spnelli Group
  • Dafni Gogou, Member of the Board Union of European Federalists (UEF)
  • François Mennerat, Member of the Board Union of European Federalists (UEF)
  • Giulia Iapichino, Doctorate researcher in Political Science
  • Francesco Sanguineti, Researcher and writer
  • Alejandra Oriola Almarcha, Member of the Young European Federalists of Spain
  • Silvana Boccanfuso, Historian, Writer
  • Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Vice-President of the European Parliament (The Left), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Othmar Karas, Member of the European parliament (EPP) and Vice-President of the European Parliament, Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Monica Frassoni, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former General Secretary Young European Federalists (JEF)
  • Jo Leinen, Former Member of the European Parliament, Union of European Federalists (UEF) Honorary President, Former President of the European Movement International
  • Mercedes Bresso, Former member of the European Parliament Former President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)
  • Andrew Duff, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former President of the
    Union of European Federalists (UEF), Former President of the Spinelli Group
  • Gabriele Bischoff, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Pierluigi Castagnetti, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former Member of the Italian Parliament
  • Maria João Rodrigues, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former Vice-President of the S&D Group, President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies
  • Pascal Durand, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Damian Boeselager, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Katalin Cseh, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Gwendoline Delbos-Cornfield, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Board Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Radan Kanev, Member of the European Parliament (EPP), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Javier Moreno Sánchez, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Member of the European Parliament (The Left), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Bernard Guetta, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Member of the European Parliament (S&D) Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Ernest Urtasun, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Sylvie Guillaume, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Hilde Vautmans, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Niklas Nienass, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Isabel García Muñoz, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Olivier Chastel, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Petras Auštrevičius, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Klára Dobrev, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Nacho Sánchez Amor, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Cristina Maestre, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Sandor Ronai, Member of the European, Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñero, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Delara Burkhardt, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Estrella Durá, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Giuliano Pisapia, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Adriana Maldonado, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Ibán García del Blanco, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Rene Repasi, Member of the European Parliament (S&D)
  • Nicolás González Casares, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Michele Ciavarini Azzi, President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), Belgium
  • Alícia Homs, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Javier López, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Alessandra Moretti, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • César Luena, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group
  • Francesco Cerasani, Member of the Partito Democratico (PD) Executive Board
  • Carlos Carnero, Former Member of the European Parliament
  • Catherine Vielledent, Group Europe (UEF) Secretary General
  • Josep Lluís Salazar, Member of Federalistes d́Esquerres (UEF) Catalunya
  • Montserrat Oliván, Member of Federalistes d́Esquerres (UEF) Catalunya
  • Domenico Rossetti, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), Belgium
  • Pablo Faura, Former President of the Union of Europeanist and Federalists (UEF) Spain
  • Pilar Llorente, Former Vicepresident of the Union of Europeanists and Federalists (UEF) Spain
  • Piero Graglia, Historian, Professor

Collaborators

  • Martina Ciai, Writer, Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament
  • Eleonora Vasques, Journalist
  • Alejandro Peinado García, Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament,
    Secretary General, Union of Europeanists and Federalists (UEF) Spain
  • Rosa Pérez Monclús, Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament
  • Iria Campo Rey, Trainee at the European Parliament

Witness

  • Silvia Costa, Commissario straordinario di Governo per il Progetto di recupero dell’́ex carcere borbonico di S. Stefano, Former Member of the European Parliament
  • Carmine Caputo, Sindaco dell’Isola di Ventotene

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