Manifesto of Ventotene

Manifesto Ventotene ( Italian: Manifesto di Ventotene ) is a political science work written by Altiero Spinelli , Eugenio Colorni, Ursula Hirschman and Ernesto Rossi during their captivity on the Italian island of Ventotene during World War II . Finished in July 1941 , the manifesto spread among the Italian resistance and soon became a program of the Movement for Federated Europe. The manifesto envisaged the unification of European countries into a single federation of the United States of Europe in order to prevent new wars ^{[1] [2]} .

According to the Manifesto, such unity can only be achieved from above, by the forces of a single political movement. This position sharply contradicted the other, according to which the unity of Europe can only be achieved naturally and only as a secondary task, after all political goals (communist, democratic, etc.) are achieved in individual countries.