Luisa Trumellini
Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists ( UEF ) and Secretary of Movimento Federalista Europeo ( MFE )
Stefano Castagnoli
President of the “ Altiero Spinelli ” Institute of Federalist Studies and MFE President
Celebrating the 10th election of the European Parliament is a political act that tells us much about the essence of the process of European unification : its successes , its still unresolved knots , and , above all , its nature as an experiment in building supranational democracy . There could not be a more opportune historical and political moment to propose this analysis and to reflect on how the European experience can help us on a similar path at a global level , i . e . to create the necessary conditions for the emergence of global democratic institutions , an indispensable step to enable humanity to govern itself in the age of interdependence .
European federalists proudly claim to have been in the vanguard of the battle for a European Parliament that would be directly elected by universal suffrage . Not only had they mobilised politically since the mid-1960s , leading up to the popular initiative
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