Mario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013,leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
Enrique Barόn Crespo is a Spanish politician,economist,and lawyer. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and was a member of the European Parliament for the Party of European Socialists group until 2009.
Emma Bonino is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013,and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously,she was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. She served in the government of Italy as Minister of International Trade from 2006 to 2008.
Danuta Maria Hübner is a Polish politician and Diplomat and Economist and Member of the European Parliament. She has served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009,when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. In 2012,Professor Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.
Altiero Spinelli was an Italian communist 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,Spinelli spent 10 years imprisoned by the Italian fascist regime. Having grown disillusioned with Stalinism,he broke with the Communist Party of Italy in 1937. Interned in Ventotene during World War II,he,along with fellow democratic socialists,drafted the manifesto For a Free and United Europe in 1941,considered a precursor of the European integration process.
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa,OMRI was an Italian banker and economist who served as Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008. He previously served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005. Padoa-Schioppa is considered as a founding father of the European single currency. He was a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
The Ventotene Manifesto,officially entitled For a Free and United Europe. A Draft Manifesto,is a political statement written by Altiero Spinelli,Ernesto Rossi,and Eugenio Colorni,while they were imprisoned on the Italian islet Santo Stefano of the island of Ventotene during World War II. Completed in June 1941,the manifesto was circulated within the Italian Resistance,and it soon became the programme of the Movimento Federalista Europeo. It called for a socialist federation of Europe and the world. In the text,European federalism and world federalism are presented as a way to prevent future wars. Vayssière notes that the manifesto is widely seen as the birth of European federalism. Spinelli,who was later elected to the European Parliament within the Italian Communist Party lists,became a leader of the federalist movement due to his primary authorship of the Manifesto and his postwar advocacy. The manifesto called for a break with Europe's past to form a new political system through a restructuring of politics and extensive social reform. It was presented not as an ideal,but as the best option for Europe's postwar condition.
Professor Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska is a Polish sociologist,academic and politician who served as the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education from 2013 to 2015.
The Left was a left-wing coalition of political parties in Italy which took part in the 2019 European Parliament election. Its main members were Italian Left and the Communist Refoundation Party.
The Associative Movement of Italians Abroad is an Italian political party representing Italians abroad. Based in Argentina and active mainly in South America,the MAIE is a centrist party.
Ursula Hirschmann was a German anti-fascist activist and an advocate of European federalism.
Róża Maria Thun,is a Polish politician,more usually known as Róża Thun than by her formal style of Countess and from 1990 her style changed to Princess.
The Other Europe,whose full name was The Other Europe with Tsipras,was a left-wing political organisation in Italy. It took part in the 2014 European Parliament election in support of Alexis Tsipras,the candidate of the Party of the European Left for President of the European Commission.
Roberto Gualtieri is an Italian historian,academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD),incumbent Mayor of Rome since 2021 and Minister of Economy and Finances in the second government of Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021. He previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019,where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019.
Alessandra Moretti is an Italian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Eugenio Colorni was an Italian philosopher and anti-fascist activist.
Lucrezia Reichlin is an Italian economist who has been a professor at London Business School since 2008.
Eva Konstantinova Maydell is a Bulgarian politician who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). A member of the GERB party,she also served as the president of the European Movement International from 2017 to 2023.
Eva Colorni (1941–1985) was an Italian economist.
