80 years on , for another Europe .
The Ventotene Manifesto
Pier Virgilio Dastoli
President of the Italian Council of the European Movement ( CIME )
* This article is a reduced version of a text previously published in the 80th years edition of Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi , Manifesto di Ventotene , Ultima Spiaggia , Genova-Ventotene 2021 , edited by Nicola Vallinoto - with contributions by Josep Borrell Fontenelles , Pier Virgilio Dastoli , Lucio Levi - in collaboration with the Centre for Studies on Federalism and The Altiero
Spinelli Institute of Federalist Studies .
When I refer to the Ventotene Manifesto in university and school meetings , I am struck by the fact that many young people believe that Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi ’ s ideas are as topical as ever ; in particular the idea that the proposal to create a European democratic power , as a way to find a permanent solution to common problems of Europeans at the end of the war , is even more valid today as a way of addressing other new problems we have in common .
Far more than among the political leaders who , in the face of the serious crisis that has struck the European Union , are helpless-
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