L'Europa tuttora divisa : un bilancio di sintesi al termine della seconda guerra mondiale

The Westphalian sovereignty which divided Europe for three centuries is partially called into question with the birth of the project aimed at unifying Europe at the end of the Second World War. The Author points out that in the past, in the medieval and modern times Europe had already enjoyed a substantial unity that helped to forge its own identity, based on universal values instead of National aspects. The European unification project, particularly in its most completed form of European Federalism by Altiero Spinelli, finds in the knowledge of the past the reasons for overcoming the division of Europe and the same anarchy which is a result of International politics; but thanks to the ability of Europeans to refound the European Union in terms of sharing political sovereignty at Community Level, there will be new political orders to really realize the ideals for European Unity. [Publisher's text].