The members’ meeting of European Federalist Movement elected the new secretary, Alessio Costanzo Fedeletook over from Massimo Bomba, who will continue his commitment within the MFE Lanciano-Vasto as honorary president. Elected president Mattia Galantetreasurer Martina Ratta.
The European Federalist Movement, founded in 1943 on the basis of the principles contained in the Ventotene Manifesto, developed by Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni, pursues as its objective the establishment of a Autonomous and incisive European federation in geopolitics and the world economycapable of determining events in the history of humanity and vigorous in the defense of Western democratic values.
“It is an honor and at the same time a great responsibility for me – comments Fedele – to be secretary of the European Federalist Movement of new Lanciano-Vasto section. I thank my predecessor Massimo Bomba for the work carried out in these difficult years for the world of the third sector and associations.
The European peoples have reached a crossroads in their history: the choice is simple, “Unite or perish”, to quote Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister of the 1930s. The regression of the member states of the European Union to the previous regional nation-state model of nineteenth-century memory is unworkable in a globalized economic and commercial system like today’s and potentially lethal from the point of view of resource supply and security strategies international.
The contemptuous anti-Europeanism of some political exponents is today counterproductive and harmful to the interests of our country: the European Federation is not the enemy of the national interest, but is its natural and prudent extension and evolution.
The need for a stronger, more united, more democratic, more just Europe is clear for all to see. We, in our small way, will do our part in the territory of Vasto and Lanciano to spread European and federalist values, because we are convinced that committing ourselves to building a federal Europe means committing ourselves to guaranteeing freedom, democracy and economic development for future generations.
The dream of a United States of Europe – he concludes – is today more concrete and necessary than ever.