Contents

Editors’ Preface to the Symposium “Is a Europe in the Spirit of the Ventotene Manifesto Still Possible?”

Editors’ Preface to the Symposium: "Is a Europe in the Spirit of the Ventotene Manifesto Still Possible?" On the occasion...

The Origins of the European Project after the First World War (1919-1930)

This essay deals with the development of European projects during the short but crucial period between the First World War...

The Cultural Roots of Ventotene’s Manifesto: The Spinelli’s Perspective

Altiero Spinelli was one of the authors of the Ventotene Manifesto, may be the most cited document of the Italian/European...

Anti-Fascism and Pro-European Movement

The end of the First World War favored in Italy a rethinking of its place in the European framework. This...

1941-2021: Strengths and Weaknesses of the EU’s Emergence as an Unprecedented Power in a Non-European World

The ‘Ventotene spirit’ is more alive than in past every decade, notably more than during the decades of the Cold...

The European Project between Progressive Evolution and Sudden Discontinuity: A Long Term Historical Assessment

The progress of European integration has to be judged through the lens of a very long history and without a...

Germany’s Two Models and the Long-Term Sustainability of the Eurozone

The disruptive forces that only a few months ago threatened disintegration of the European Monetary Union (EMU) seem to have...

An Economic and Monetary ‘Experiment’ Gone Too Far?

This paper explores the monetary foundations of the European Union (EU) and argues that the legacy of the Bretton Woods...

Growth and the Single Currency: Fiscal Policy as the Cause of Disunity in the EU

The Ventotene Manifesto provided a guide to the future of European unity, yet it did not consider expressly what eventually...