PROPOSAL OF A MANIFESTO FOR A FEDERAL EUROPE: SOVEREIGN, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL

Presentation

The Proposal of a Manifesto for a Federal Europe: sovereign, social and ecological, was an idea born in 2021on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Ventotene Manifesto and during the development of the Conference on the Future of Europe. A total of 23 drafters (representatives of political organizations, federalist activists, academics and experts) and 60 supporters have set proposals inspired in the heritage of the Ventotene Manifesto in today´s context: the need to update the European institutional framework in a federal path and improving the global governance; the challenges resulted from the war in Ukraine; the health emergency and the climate crisis; the digital revolution; and the challenges to Human Rights as consequence of deepening inequalities. The proposal presented captures a diverse and constructive approach to culminate the necessary European federation.

After its first presentation on the 2 nd of March 2022 in Brussels, the Proposal of a Manifesto for a Federal Europe: sovereign, social and ecological was launched in the Island of Ventotene (Italy) on the 29th of August 2022, in occasion of the federalist seminar yearly organised by the Istituto Altiero Spinelli, by a delegation of the Spinelli Group Members in the European Parliament and federalist activists. Particularly:
Daniel Freund, President of the Spinelli Group (Greens, Germany), Salvatore de Meo (EPP, Italy), Domènec Ruiz Devesa (S&D,Spain), Guy Verhofstad (Renew, Belgium), Helmut Scholz (Left, Germany), Pietro Bartolo, (S&D, Italy), Fabio Massimo Castaldo (Non-Attached), Brando Benifei (S&D, Italy), Alin Mituta (Renew Europe) and Thijs Reuten (S&D, The Netherlands) – and representatives of different proeuropean organisations, such as the Italian Council of the European Movement, Group Europe, the Union of European Federalists in Spain, Belgium and France.

The Ventotene Lighthouse participated from the beginning to drafting the Manifesto and support it.

Drafters & Contributors:

Domènec Ruiz Devesa, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Board Member of the Spinelli Group, Vicepresident of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)

Guy Verhofstadt, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Co-founder and Board Member of the Spinelli Group, Co-chair of the Executive Board of the
Conference for the Future of Europe

Daniel Freund, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), President of the Spinelli Group, Vice President of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament

Salvatore De Meo, Member of the European Parliament (EPP)

Pietro Bartolo, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Alin Mituta, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament (The Left), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Member of the European Parliament (Non-Attached), Member of the Spinelli Group, Member of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)

Pier Virgilio Dastoli, President of the Italian Council of the European Movement, Former collaborator of Altiero Spinelli

Laura Maria Cinquini, Former Ambassador, citizen ́s panel of the Conference on
the Future of Europe

Paolo Acunzo, Member of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)

Nicola Vallinoto, Member of the World Federalist Movement (WFM)

Tommaso Visone, Associate Professor of History of Political Doctrines, Member of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)

Antonio Longo, Member of the Federal Committee of the Movimento Federalista Italiano (MFE), and Director the Ventotene Lighthouse

Jaap Hoeksma Philosopher of law, Director of Euroknow

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Writer, Former Member of the European Parliament, Co-founder of the Spinelli Group

Enrique Barón Crespo, Former President of the European Parliament, Union
of Europeanists and Federalists (UEF) Spain President

Hans-Gert Pöttering, Former President of the European Parliament, President of the Board, House of European History

Luca Visentini, Secretary General, European Trade Union Confederation

Danuta Hübner, Member of the European Parliament (EPP), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Sophie in ‘t Veld, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Pierre Larrouturou, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member
of the Spinelli Group

Lucio Levi, Former President of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE), Professor of Political Science

Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga, President of the Spanish Federal Council of the
European Movement, Professor of International Relations

Paolo Ponzano, Author, University professor, and Member, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)

Guido Montani, Former President of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE), Professor of Political Economy

Domenico Moro, Member of the Federal Committee, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)

François Leray, President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) France

Alberto Alemanno, Professor Jean Monnet, EU law

Carlos María Bru Purón, Former Member of the European Parliament

Andreas Bummel, Author, Co-founder and director of Democracy Without Borders and the International Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

Fernando Iglesias, Co-President of the World Federalist Movement, Member of Parliament, Argentina

Participating colleagues of the Spinelli Group & other supporters

Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Board Member of the Spinelli Group, Vice-President of the European Movement International

Thijs Reuten, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Jonás Fernández Álvarez, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spnelli Group

Dafni Gogou, Member of the Board Union of European Federalists (UEF)

François Mennerat, Member of the Board Union of European Federalists (UEF)

Giulia Iapichino, Doctorate researcher in Political Science

Francesco Sanguineti, Researcher and writer

Alejandra Oriola Almarcha, Member of the Young European Federalists of Spain

Silvana Boccanfuso, Historian, Writer

Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Vice-President of the European Parliament (The Left), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Othmar Karas, Member of the European parliament (EPP) and Vice-President of the European Parliament, Member of the Spinelli Group

Monica Frassoni, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former General Secretary Young European Federalists (JEF)

Jo Leinen, Former Member of the European Parliament, Union of European Federalists (UEF) Honorary President, Former President of the European Movement International

Mercedes Bresso, Former member of the European Parliament Former President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF)

Andrew Duff, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former President of the
Union of European Federalists (UEF), Former President of the Spinelli Group

Gabriele Bischoff, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Pierluigi Castagnetti, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former Member of the Italian Parliament

Maria João Rodrigues, Former Member of the European Parliament, Former Vice-President of the S&D Group, President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Pascal Durand, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Damian Boeselager, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Katalin Cseh, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Gwendoline Delbos-Cornfield, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Board Member of the Spinelli Group

Radan Kanev, Member of the European Parliament (EPP), Member of the Spinelli Group

Javier Moreno Sánchez, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Member of the European Parliament (The Left), Member of the Spinelli Group

Bernard Guetta, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Member of the European Parliament (S&D) Member of the Spinelli Group

Ernest Urtasun, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Member of the Spinelli Group

Sylvie Guillaume, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Hilde Vautmans, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Niklas Nienass, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Member of the Spinelli Group

Isabel García Muñoz, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Olivier Chastel, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Petras Auštrevičius, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), Member of the Spinelli Group

Klára Dobrev, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Cristina Maestre, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Sandor Ronai, Member of the European, Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñero, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Delara Burkhardt, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Estrella Durá, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Giuliano Pisapia, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Adriana Maldonado, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Ibán García del Blanco, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Rene Repasi, Member of the European Parliament (S&D)

Nicolás González Casares, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Michele Ciavarini Azzi, President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), Belgium

Alícia Homs, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Javier López, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Alessandra Moretti, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

César Luena, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Member of the Spinelli Group

Francesco Cerasani, Member of the Partito Democratico (PD) Executive Board

Carlos Carnero, Former Member of the European Parliament

Catherine Vielledent, Group Europe (UEF) Secretary General

Josep Lluís Salazar, Member of Federalistes d́Esquerres (UEF) Catalunya

Montserrat Oliván, Member of Federalistes d́Esquerres (UEF) Catalunya

Domenico Rossetti, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), Belgium

Pablo Faura, Former President of the Union of Europeanist and Federalists (UEF) Spain

Pilar Llorente, Former Vicepresident of the Union of Europeanists and Federalists (UEF) Spain

Piero Graglia, Historian, Professor

Collaborators

Martina Ciai, Writer, Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament

Eleonora Vasques, Journalist

Alejandro Peinado García, Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament,
Secretary General, Union of Europeanists and Federalists (UEF) Spain

Rosa Pérez Monclús, Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament

Iria Campo Rey, Trainee at the European Parliament

Witness

Silvia Costa, Commissario straordinario di Governo per il Progetto di recupero dell’́ex carcere borbonico di S. Stefano, Former Member of the European Parliament

Carmine Caputo, Sindaco dell’Isola di Ventotene

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