RECON

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RECON (the acronym for RECONSTITUTING DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE) is a five-year research project with 18 partner institutions and around 70 participating researchers across Europe. The researchers represent many academic disciplines such as political science, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, information science, law and legal theory, and economics.

RECON is supported by the Sixth Framework Programme for Research of the EU Commission, and coordinated by ARENA – Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.

The project started 1 January 2007 and is to go on until 31 December 2011.

Altiero Spinelli - From Ventotene to the European Constitution

In January 2007, RECON published Altiero Spinelli - From Ventotene to the European Constitution, an anthology of Spinelli's writings in English:

   Agustín José Menéndez (ed.)
   RECON Report No 1

   ARENA Report 1/07, Oslo, January 2007

   The life and political actions of Altiero Spinelli (1907-1986) reflect the
   eventful transformations that Europe underwent in the last century. A
   political opponent of Fascism since his early youth, Spinelli spent more
   than a decade in prison and confinement. During those difficult years, he
   synthesised classical federalist    thinking into a theory and a blueprint
   for a federation of Europe. Spinelli was a close advisor to Alcide de
   Gasperi in the 1950s, a part-time scholar in the 1960s, a Commissioner in
   the early 1970s, a paramount figure of the European Parliament from 1976
   to 1986, and an unrelenting critic of all orthodoxies.

The text of of this e-book is available at http://www.reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/Report1_Spinelli.html