In an interview with the economic publication Vision in November 1977, Altiero Spinelli, MEP and former Member of the European Commission, focuses on the issues involved in the first election to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage.

On 14 October 1982, one year after the submission of the draft European Act by the German and Italian Governments, the MEP Altiero Spinelli criticises the lack of tangible results and vigorously supports the initiatives taken by the European Parliament with a view to the creation of the European Union.

On 19 November 1981, the MEP Altiero Spinelli publicly reprimands Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Emilio Colombo, the German and Italian Foreign Ministers, for having committed European political cooperation to an Intergovernmental Conference.

In the 1952 issue of La voix fédéraliste, Altiero Spinelli, Secretary-General of the European Federalist Movement, evaluates the work accomplished by the Union of European Federalists (UEF) over the course of the previous year.

On 3 January 1981, Altiero Spinelli sends a letter to Simone Veil, President of the European Parliament. Spinelli discusses the views that Veil recently expressed on the state of the European Community, criticising these views for lacking commitment to institutional reform and instead asserting the position that he set out in his ‘crocodile’ letters.

On 19 March 1984, the Spanish daily newspaper El País describes Altiero Spinelli, author in the European Parliament of the Federalist-inspired draft Treaty on European Union.

Italian Euro-MP, Altiero Spinelli, photographed in 1984 in front of the ‘Crocodile' restaurant in Strasbourg where the foundations were first laid for a parliamentary project in favour of a federal Europe.

On 18 February 1977, in an article published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde, Altiero Spinelli, leader of the independent left-wing political group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Member of the Communist and Allies Group in the European Parliament, gives his response to the article by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the same newspaper on 10 February, in order to demonstrate his support for elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage.

In 1941, the anti-Fascist activists Ernesto Rossi and Altiero Spinelli, placed under house arrest on the Italian island of Ventotene, draw up a manifesto for a free and united Europe.

From 24 to 26 May 1982, Altiero Spinelli annotates the European Parliament’s motion for a resolution to take into account as far as possible the amendments proposed by the members of the Institutional Committee.