Maastricht Treaty – far from constituting the embryo of a European federal power – put the achievement of monetary union before the completion of the economic union , leaving the creation of a political union behind on an undefined agenda with no content or timing .
According to the same perverse logic , governments imagined that the response to the financial crisis of 2007-2008 could come from a process that started with an incomplete banking union , to then move to budgetary union and finally to economic union , leaving democratic legitimacy once again only vaguely characterized in terms of methods and timing .
Finally , there is a statement by Spinelli on the three reasons for the relevance of the Manifesto to our times - after the turmoil caused in the second decade of the 21st century by the financial crisis , by international terrorism which arose and was active in Europe , by the desperate search for a better future for millions of asylum seekers and finally by the pandemic :
· the idea of the foundation of a European federation belongs to the current generation and not to an indeterminate generation far away in time ,
• the action to carry it out requires a vast mobilization of public opinion but above all a movement organized according to revolutionary logic ,
• and the line between political cultures no longer divides right and left , conservation and progress , but those who defend apparent national sovereignties and those who are ready to fight for a higher European sovereignty , that is , between the immobile and the innovators .
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