in the battle for the United States of Europe since its inception to give new and renewed operational vigor to an idea - that of a united Europe - which not only had lost credibility over time , but which risked collapsing definitively under the weight of the severe economic and financial crisis of those years . The fact that claims linked to gender discrimination are grafted onto this primordial objective is the inevitable consequence of a social commitment to women that the movement cannot fail to assume given the historical period in which it is located , and which allows Ursula ’ s idea Hirschmann to survive them , albeit in different organizational forms , thanks to the political activism of other women . Fausta Deshormes la Valle and Jacqueline de Groote will be the two main architects of the change in a new form .
Therefore , the most important moment of Ursula ’ s commitment to European construction - understood as her own and original contribution to the federalist cause - is not to be found in the 40s , the years of Manifesto di Ventotene to be clear , but in the much more recent 70 ’ s .
Femmes pour l ’ Europe had short life because of the unexpected disease of Ursula 8 occurred only little months after the official constitution of the group , happened to Brussels 9 on April 24 , 1975 . However , there is a lot to be said about it . And to be clarified . Here , I will limit myself to reiterating two important concepts .
First of all , by interpreting the birth of the initiative group in terms of Ursula Hirschmann ’ s adhesion to the feminist movement
8 . On December 1 , 1975 Ursula Hirschmann is struck by a cerebral aneurysm . Subjected to an emergency operation to stop the cerebral hemorrhage , part of the skull is removed . She remains invalid for the rest of her life .
9 . Since September 1970 Ursula lives in Brussels , having followed her husband Altiero who was appointed Commissioner of the European Communities in June of that year .
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