Bulletin n. 1/2013
June 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Corsetti Rita
    Pensiero e azione federalista in Mario Albertini
    in Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali , Volume 79, n. 4, ottobre-dicembre ,  2012 ,  567-587
    In the last months the worsening of the economic and financial situation in the Eurozone has relaunched the debate on the political dimension of the european Union and an increasing number of articles, manifestos and statements on the european future have been published. Offering an original point of view on Europe, the writings of Mario Albertini, a former leader of the European Federalist Movement and one of the most prolific federalist theorists, could suggest new ideas to draft an exit strategy from the current European crisis. In the Fifties Albertini took part to the federalist action promoted by Altiero Spinelli, contributing to the organization of the Federalist Movement and to the education of the youth federalist militants. In the first half of the Sixties he began to develop his own federalist strategy based on autonomy from the national political forces, opposition to the nation State and rejection of the government's European policy. His action aimed at introducing a genuine European political thought,mobilizing the European people to obtain recognition of his contituent power and realizing the european federation as a first step toward the World federation. At the end of the Sixties the failure of his attempts and the development of the European integration process brought him to revise his strategy. He renounced to obtain the recognition of the european people's constituent power in the short term and facalized his action on more realistic goals, like the election of the European Parliament or the creation of European single currency, that should have pushed toward the European federation.
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