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On 9 July 1980, Altiero Spinelli (1907-1986) brought together at the ‘Crocodile’ restaurant in Strasbourg eight MEPs who had accepted his appeal: ‘the Community must reform or perish’. This was the birth of the ‘Crocodile Club’, whose action, conducted in particular through the ‘Letter to the Members of the European Parliament’ in the early 1980s, […]

For a man such as Jean Monnet (1888-1979), who understood from his earliest political experiences that, "reflection can not be separated from action", the salient facts of his life aiso represent an important guide to his philosophy and his way of conducting politics.After spending his youth helping his father inthe Cognac business,Monnet set himself at […]

VIDEO "The Ventotene Manifesto" On the occasion of the transfer of the Proposal of a Manifesto for a Federal Europe: sovereign, social and ecological to the Archives of the European Parliament, this video recalls the history of Altiero Spinelli, the original 'Ventotene Manifesto', and the story of European Federalism including the modern Spinelli Group. EPRS […]

By JEAN-PIERRE GOUZY First pubblication: The Federalist, A political Review, Essay, Year XLVI, 2004, Number 1, Page 12, LINK Italian Version here LINK After the First World War, during the 1920s, a European current of thought arose from the inability of organising the European states and people according to an international natural order suited to […]

What should be the ultimate aim of a constituent convention? In 1780, well before the convening of the Philadelphia Convention, Hamilton, writing to lames Duane, then member of Congress for New York State, provided a clear answer to this question, setting out what he considered to be the defects of the confederation. Here, we reproduce […]

In the 2021, the Union of European Federalists celebrates its 75th anniversary. In this podcast the President of the UEF, Sandro Gozi, describes the actuality of the idea of european federation as political project, milestones achivied and futures new process where federalists are involved.

The Union of European Federalists was founded in Paris in December 1946. While Europe was still in the middle of a brutal war, groups emerged in various countries particularly in Italy, France, Germany and Belgium – calling for European political unity. They were united in the rejection of nationalism and in the belief that the […]

22 February 2015, by Josep Borrell (former President of the European Parliament). First of all, thank you very much for the invitation to participate in this International Seminar in Ventotene, the prison-island where Spinelli, Rossi and Colorni wrote their famous Manifesto. [1] I have been active in Spanish and European politics for over 30 years. Back in 1998-1999, […]

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Video produced in occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the UEF.

Libraries

Crocodile: letters to the Parliaments of Europe founded by Altiero Spinelli (1980-1995)

Jean Monnet, His Life and Work

Federalism in the European Parliament | From Ventotene Manifesto to the Spinelli Group

The saga of the European Federalists during and after the Second World War

Alexandre Hamilton

75th anniversary of the Union of European Federalists

70 Years of Campaigns for a United and Federal Europe

Is a Federal Europe Possible?

UEF Newsletters 2011

The Union of European Federalist | 65th anniversary