Altiero Spinelli - From Ventotene to the European Constitution
RECON, a research project on European democracy, has just published an anthology of Spinelli's writings in English. You can download the text at
www.reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/Report1_Spinelli.html
Kudos to the RECON researchers for having opened their publication series with an e-book about and by the unorthodox "founding father" of the European Union.
The RECON project is funded by the 6th research framework program of the EU Commission.
Blurb:
Agustín José Menéndez (ed.)
RECON Report No 1
ARENA Report 1/07, Oslo, January 2007
The life and political actions of Altiero Spinelli (1907-1986) reflect the
eventful transformations that Europe underwent in the last century. A
political opponent of Fascism since his early youth, Spinelli spent more
than a decade in prison and confinement. During those difficult years, hesynthesised classical federalist thinking into a theory and a blueprint
for a federation of Europe. Spinelli was a close advisor to Alcide de
Gasperi in the 1950s, a part-time scholar in the 1960s, a Commissioner in
the early 1970s, a paramount figure of the European Parliament from 1976
to 1986, and an unrelenting critic of all orthodoxies.
