(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 22 - Much of the Italian centre left made
a pilgrimage Saturday to Ventotene, the island south of Rome
where anti-fascist prisoners and political thinkers Altiero
Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni in 1941 wrote a
manifesto for a federalist Europe that is widely considered a
foundational text for the European Union, amid a major row after
rightwing Premier Giorgia Meloni told parliament this week that
the manifesto "is certainly not my Europe", spurring outrage in
the opposition.
The centre-left delegation left a bouquet of flowers on
Spinelli's grave on the former Resistance prison island off
Latina in the EU colours of blue and yellow.
Centre left makes pilgrimage to Ventotene (2)
After row with Meloni
