In 1970's and 1980's Altiero Spinelli, as a tireless Euro-federalist, struggled persistently for the re-launch of the European integration and tried to put up an overall institutional reform of the Community according to the constitutional approach he favored. His and his crocodile club's efforts and activities in this regard played a key part in the making of the Draft Treaty establishing the European Union, which the European Parliament adopted in 1984. Even if Spinelli's expectations were only reflected partly in the Draft Treaty and the Draft Treaty never put into practice, his efforts did...
