In Venice, on June 17, 2014, a special session of the Veneto Council was held “open” to MEPs, European movements and representatives of the Italian government.
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A document was also drafted for a “constituent semester” to be entrusted to the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi next July 8, on the occasion of the first European summit of the Italian Presidency of the Union scheduled in Venice.
These are the first initiatives put in the pipeline by the Council “intergroup”, established today at Palazzo Ferro-Fini. “Ten councillors of the different political forces have already joined the initiative, which will have to accompany and give strength to the European reform process borrowing similar experiences of inter-party collaboration already started in the European and Italian Parliaments and in the Regional Council of Piedmont” announces Franco Bonfante, vice-president of the Regional Council and pro tempore coordinator of the new political body. “Veneto and its Regional Council are ready to contribute to the semester of Italian presidency of the Union with observations, indications and proposals, in order to change the European institutions from inside and take in a convinced way the way of the political union and not only monetary and financial union”.
They have so far joined the intergroup, in addition to Bonfante, the Councillor Maria Luisa Coppola, who represents the Veneto in the Committee of the Regions in Brussels, the chairmen of the Statute Committee Carlo Alberto Tesserin and for Community Relations Nereo Laroni (both NCD), the councilors of the PD Giuseppe Berlato Sella, Roberto Fasoli, Stefano Fracasso and Sergio Reolon, the group leaders Antonino Pipitone (Italy of Values) and Stefano Peraro (Udc).
The working map of the intergroup is represented by resolution 60 approved by the Regional Council on October 30 last, which summarizes the Venetian proposals for “the new democratic Europe” (president of the Union directly elected by the Europarliament, European Commission with effective functions of European government, a single foreign minister, European army, central bank with issuing powers).
To support the political work of the ten councillors (“but others will be added soon”, hopes Bonfante) “the European Federalist Movement, with 3 thousand members in Italy and nine sections in Veneto” explain Giorgio Anselmi, Aldo Bianchin and Matteo Roncarà, respectively director of the newspaper “L’unità europea”, president and secretary of the MFE in Veneto, which keeps alive the message and ideals of Altiero Spinelli, the Italian politician who most contributed to founding a united Europe.
“Veneto has always expressed a strong and convinced adhesion to the idea of a united Europe” adds Tesserin “as witnessed by our regional statute and the qualified initiatives of public awareness and dialogue with the European institutions undertaken since the 1980s until today. In this political phase marked by Euroscepticism, we must work within the institutions to reform Europe in a federal sense. The six months of the Italian presidency must be the six months of political reforms, to be supported and supported from below, with the maximum institutional and participatory commitment”.
In Venice, on June 17, 2014, a special session of the Veneto Council was held “open” to MEPs, European movements and representatives of the Italian government.
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A document was also drafted for a “constituent semester” to be entrusted to the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi next July 8, on the occasion of the first European summit of the Italian Presidency of the Union scheduled in Venice.
These are the first initiatives put in the pipeline by the Council “intergroup”, established today at Palazzo Ferro-Fini. “Ten councillors of the different political forces have already joined the initiative, which will have to accompany and give strength to the European reform process borrowing similar experiences of inter-party collaboration already started in the European and Italian Parliaments and in the Regional Council of Piedmont” announces Franco Bonfante, vice-president of the Regional Council and pro tempore coordinator of the new political body. “Veneto and its Regional Council are ready to contribute to the semester of Italian presidency of the Union with observations, indications and proposals, in order to change the European institutions from inside and take in a convinced way the way of the political union and not only monetary and financial union”.
They have so far joined the intergroup, in addition to Bonfante, the Councillor Maria Luisa Coppola, who represents the Veneto in the Committee of the Regions in Brussels, the chairmen of the Statute Committee Carlo Alberto Tesserin and for Community Relations Nereo Laroni (both NCD), the councilors of the PD Giuseppe Berlato Sella, Roberto Fasoli, Stefano Fracasso and Sergio Reolon, the group leaders Antonino Pipitone (Italy of Values) and Stefano Peraro (Udc).
The working map of the intergroup is represented by resolution 60 approved by the Regional Council on October 30 last, which summarizes the Venetian proposals for “the new democratic Europe” (president of the Union directly elected by the Europarliament, European Commission with effective functions of European government, a single foreign minister, European army, central bank with issuing powers).
To support the political work of the ten councillors (“but others will be added soon”, hopes Bonfante) “the European Federalist Movement, with 3 thousand members in Italy and nine sections in Veneto” explain Giorgio Anselmi, Aldo Bianchin and Matteo Roncarà, respectively director of the newspaper “L’unità europea”, president and secretary of the MFE in Veneto, which keeps alive the message and ideals of Altiero Spinelli, the Italian politician who most contributed to founding a united Europe.
“Veneto has always expressed a strong and convinced adhesion to the idea of a united Europe” adds Tesserin “as witnessed by our regional statute and the qualified initiatives of public awareness and dialogue with the European institutions undertaken since the 1980s until today. In this political phase marked by Euroscepticism, we must work within the institutions to reform Europe in a federal sense. The six months of the Italian presidency must be the six months of political reforms, to be supported and supported from below, with the maximum institutional and participatory commitment”.