Creating Europe on a tiny Italian island

These three recurrences in August suggest that a reflection on Europe is timely: the birth of Altiero Spinelli on August 31, 1907; the founding meeting of the European Federalist Movement in Milan on August 27 and 28, 1943; and the death of Alcide de Gasperi on August 19, 1954. Spinelli and De Gasperi, two Italian statesmen, belong to a group of me...