The 100 Assemblies for a Federal Europe Campaign Comes to an End

On Thursday, 5 May, the final event of the 100 Citizens' Assemblies for a Federal Europe Campaign, promoted by the European Federalist Movement - Italy as part of the mobilisation for the Conference on the Future of Europe, took place online (here: https://fb.watch/cW9Txirn72/ ). As of the date of this writing, as many as 84 citizens' assemblies have been organised and planned, held in various ways, as Citizens' Assemblies with civil society and political and social forces (usually also involving representatives of the municipal administration) or as Municipal Councils, often open to citizens, or even as University and inter-institutional assemblies. Almost all of them were included on the website of the Conference on the Future of Europe

The event on 5 May featured speeches by a number of assembly representatives from each region. Each one brought his or her own testimony regarding also the involvement of citizens and young people in the debate on the future of Europe, also in view of the new process for the reform of the Treaties that we ask to start after the conclusion of the Conference. Speakers included Stefano Passarini, Mayor of Costermano (VR), Monica Marini, Mayor of Pontassieve (FI), Sonia Cambursano, Mayor of Strambino (TO) and Deputy Councillor of the Metropolitan City of Turin, Marco Cogno, Mayor of Torre Pellice (TO), Lia Montalti, Regional Councillor of Emilia Romagna, Ennio Triggiani, University of Bari (Coordinator of the Forum on CoFoE of the Association of European Union Law Scholars), Filippo Barberis, Member of the Milan City Council, Antonella Melito, Member of the Capitoline Assembly, Massimo Bello, President of the Senigallia City Council, Vito Piruzza, President of the Piazza Futura Cultural Association, Ragusa

Government and parliamentary representatives also took part to bring greetings and to confirm the synergy of the various institutional levels in this process: among them, the Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova, Senator Alessandro Alfieri and the Hon. Matteo Bianchi - national representatives respectively for the Senate and the Chamber in the Conference Plenary - the MEPs members of the Conference Brando Benifei (Head of the Italian Delegation of the S&D in the European Parliament and President of the Spinelli Group) and Sandro Gozi (President of the Union of European Federalists - UEF).

Among the 84 assemblies can be numbered several municipal councils, the assemblies produced an Agenda or Motion committing the municipality and its administration to promote the conference and its results, while in the Open Citizens' Assemblies, in the majority of cases an Assembly Appeal was approved at its conclusion.