nicle of the preparation of the founding meeting , on August 27 in Milan , at Alberto Mario Rollier ’ s home , saw an enormous organizational effort , especially by women . Among the participants were notable names from the different political orientations of Italian anti-fascism ; some , such as Colorni and Leone Ginzburg , soon became victims of the Nazi-Fascist repression . The basis of discussion was Spinelli ’ s Federalist thesis , not the Manifesto . From the north of Italy in 1943 , the attention is turned to Europe : Ernesto and Ada Rossi , Ursula , the three daughters ( born from the marriage with Eugenio Colorni , long overdue ) and Spinelli , move to Switzerland , crossing the border adventurously . Since then and forever , the two will be linked by a great love , set-off in 1944 by marriage , after the assassination of Colorni , in Rome , a few days before the Liberation . From this moment on , a European history of hopes and disappointments begins for the Movement . Norberto Bobbio will write that federalism and the Resistance are welded together through multiple “ cultural and political convergences ”, so much so that “ no one today can make the history of the Resistance without the federalist perspective ” ( Bobbio , 1991 ). The Resistance is European . German anti-Nazis , French anti-fascists and other countries are progressively joined by the increasingly large and efficient organization of the Movement , whose fortune has a karstic evolution . The newspaper “ L ’ Unità Europea ”, an organ of the Movement , was also born . Spinelli attributes to Ursula the commitment for editing and printing .
The next step was a conference in Geneva , the first experiment of discussion with important European federalists , in May 1944 , again thanks to the fundamental commitment of women , Hirschmann the only intermediary with the German component . The outcome was not exciting , but the results obtained in the liberation of France led to a third appointment , in Paris , in March 1945 , where a “ Comité français pour la fédération européenne ” already existed .
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