The Spinelli Group will come forward with suggestions it considers as necessary Big Steps Forward. There are a lot of themes and subjects on which the European Union should move forward but someone must put them on the agenda. Federal and post-national st
Luis de Miranda: "The Internet today is the place through which humanity is coming to realise that liberty will require that we – the collective we – take control of the building and re-design of protocol. Wikileaks is a real milestone in that process. Th
Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, 12 January 2011 "...the SPD, the Greens and Die Linke explicitly and robustly support the development of a real economic and political union, including the genuine co-ordination of economic policy, the harmonization of social
"During the 1956 Hungarian uprising the Finns had to bite their tongues and make no public expression of support for the Hungarians (as Finnish leaders had advised during the Polish rising in 1863). The Finns knew that their great eastern neighbor could b
Kommentar von Gabi Zimmer, April 2011: "Bereits 1941 hatte Altiero Spinelli als Antwort auf die Kriege des 20. Jahrhunderts im Manifest von Ventotene..." "Das Europäische Parlament, die direkte demokratische Vertretung der Menschen in Europa, wird heute v
Rasmus Fleischer 17 Feb, 2004 " På Ung vänsters kongress i somras var förbundsstyrelsen stenhård på en punkt: »Frågan om suveränitet och nationalstaterna som arena för folkets kamp mot överheten är inte en fråga bland andra. Det är kanske den mest centrala frågan i dagens politiska landskap.« Låt oss säga att det stämmer. I så fall finns det inte en vänster, utan två."
By Stanley A. Weiss Published: April 21, 1997 "Now, once again after a war (this time the Cold War), America is at a crossroads. Will it return to the extremist policies it followed after the World War I or demonstrate the generosity of spirit that animated American foreign policy after World War II and contained and then defeated the Soviet Union? The chemical convention presents such a choice. " (The writer is founder and chairman of Business Executives for National Security, an organization of U.S. business leaders. He contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune.) -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention
Mario Albertini, Il Federalista, Anno XXVIII, 1986, Numero 1, Pagina 3 (editoriale): "Essendosi liberato del condizionamento nazionale e di quello ideologico del passato, Spinelli è riuscito a progettare «ex novo» un’azione costituzionale supernazionale per l’obiettivo strategico del nostro tempo in Europa: l’unità, cioè la Federazione europea. È stata così intrapresa per la prima volta una azione politica che non si basa sulla lotta per la conquista e l’uso dei poteri costituiti (i poteri nazionali), ma sulla lotta per la creazione di poteri nuovi. È la sola via per ristabilire l’equilibrio tra capacità tecnologica e capacità politica, e per incamminare il mondo verso la vera civiltà: la pace organizzata."
Max Weber: "„Jeder Staat wird auf Gewalt gegründet,“ sagte seinerzeit Trozkij in Brest-Litowsk. Das ist in der Tat richtig." In der Vergangenheit haben die verschiedensten Verbände – von der Sippe angefangen – physische Gewaltsamkeit als ganz normales Mittel gekannt. Heute dagegen werden wir sagen müssen: Staat ist diejenige menschliche Gemeinschaft, welche innerhalb eines bestimmten Gebietes – dies: das „Gebiet“, gehört zum Merkmal – das Monopol legitimer physischer Gewaltsamkeit für sich (mit Erfolg) beansprucht."