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.
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