Altiero Spinelli

Altiero Spinelli   (politician)
Born	1907-08-31 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	1986-05-23 (Age 78) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome
Children	Barbara Spinelli
Spouse	Ursula Hirschmann
Founder of	Italian International Affairs Institute
Party	Communist Party of Italy, Action Party, Republican Democratic Concentration, Independent Left
Italian politician, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.  Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship In office 1 July 1970 - 4 July 1976  Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies In office 5 July 1976 - 10 July 1983  Member of the European Parliament In office 10 June 1979 - 23 May 1986 "?" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Italian International Affairs Institute/President In office 11 October 1965 - ? Founder

Altiero Spinelli was an Italian politician, political theorist and European federalist, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

A communist and militant anti-fascist in his youth, he spent 10 years imprisoned by the Fascist regime. Having grown disillusioned with Stalinism, he broke with the Italian Communist Party in 1937. Interned on the prison island Ventotene during World War II he, along with fellow democratic socialists, drafted the Manifesto for a free and united Europe (most commonly known as the Ventotene Manifesto) in 1941, considered a precursor of the European integration process.

He had a leading role in the foundation of the European federalist movement in 1946, and had strong influence on the first few decades of post-World War II European integration. Later, he helped to re-launch the integration process in the 1980s. By the time of his death, he had been a member of the European Commission for six years, a member of the European Parliament for ten years right up until his death. The main building of the European Parliament in Brussels is named after him.

The Spinelli Group of European federalists is named after him.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
1948 Hague Congress	7 May 1948	11 May 1948	Netherlands The Hague	Landmark conference which had a profound influence on the shape of the European Movement. Many of the groups organizing the conference received covert funding from the CIA.
Bilderberg/1968	26 April 1968	28 April 1968	Canada Mont Tremblant	The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada
Congress for Cultural Freedom/Founding Conference	26 June 1950	29 June 1950		Founded the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The participants had a "a culpable incuriosity about funding" of the luxurious conference, which was later exposed as CIA money.

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