These days we are mourning the 20th anniversary of the death of Altiero Spinelli. With him the European federalist movement has possibly lost one of its greatest protagonists. However, occasion like those of today are not to focus on what we have lost in this great federalist but in what he has left for us. Spinelli’s ideas are alive in JEF “A federal structure is a necessary condition for the development of free political life”, Spinelli believed. Dissatisfaction to EU in its current form (...)