 Hi to everyone. It is a pleasure to have all of you with us for the fourth year that we organized this taking stock conference as it was set at the opening. It is a conference organized by the European Observatory on Memories together with the House of European History and the German House, both from the European Parliament and with a cooperation and collaboration of the European Commission and the EACEA agency, which is the organization managing, as you know, this new SERP program, where the remembrance policies are placed. So unfortunately this year it's only an online event and we are happy also to have a new partner this year, which is the Institute of Federalist Studies, Altieri Spinelli from Italy. Buongiorno, Mario. It's a pleasure to have you among us this year. And this special collaboration with the Instituto Spinelli this year has a special meaning. Since from Europe we have a network of partners, 53 partners so far, with which we develop different activities from research and analysis to debate such as this online conference where we give the floor to all attendees to put questions and to share thoughts and comments. To citizens participation we have a special focus on youth participation. Every year we organize at least two or three activities with youngsters from different European countries. And also, and this is the point where I wanted to go, is dissemination strategies to reach and to involve citizens in terms of memory. So giving EU citizens the possibility to think and to participate in memory activities. With this aim, since two years ago we developed a new series of publications devoted to remember those main pillars of the current European Union, the main historical pillars of the current Union. And last year we published for the first issue of this series, which was devoted to the Schumann Declaration, the 17th anniversary of the Schumann Declaration, which is considered, as you know, one of the founding documents or initiatives of the nowadays Union. And this year we are commemorating the 18th anniversary of so-called Bentotenne Manifesto. This is also one of the initial ideas that finally led to what we understand today as the European Union. And together with our colleagues, which are the real experts on this matter, we promoted this second publication. Just let me show you very briefly how this publication looks like online, but today, precisely today, we will have in our hands the hard copy edition, the printed edition of this booklet devoted to remember the Manifesto promoted by Altiero Spinelli and his colleagues in the prison of Bentotenne. I hope, can you see this? This is how the online edition looks like. You can have all the summary with the different articles that our Italian and French colleagues contributed with. And once inside, you have the chance to either read the articles and also to see the selection of images that was conducted by the Italian colleagues together with all of us. So just this short presentation for you to know. And now I give the floor to Philippe Leghen, our colleague from the Jambonnet House and to Mario Leone, director of the Spinelli Institute in Italy. So stop sharing. Okay, so the floor is your, Philippe. Thank you. Thank you very much, Oriole. Hello, everyone. I hope you had already the opportunity maybe to visit virtually the Jambonnet House. I am there today. It's a pity that we cannot meet physically, but we hope that in the course of next year and for the next taking stock event of next year, it will be at least possible to meet now. And for those of you who never came to visit the Jambonnet House, we are sitting here in, we are very lucky actually, we are sitting here in the very place where Jambonnet first conceived the first community, the European community of coal and steel in the 1950. And it's of course a memory place. And every day we have the opportunity maybe to reflect on sitting just upstairs of where everything was conceived. I often have this opportunity to reflect about the great project that was invented here. But of course, as Oriole mentioned, it's important and we also work a lot with citizens, with young people, but with the general public and even with our colleagues from the institutions, the civil servants from the institutions or from the member states. So it's important with them to evoke, as Oriole mentioned, memory, the memory, the collective memory of our Europe, which is first of all not known, most of the time not taught at school. And we had already the opportunity to mention this earlier this morning how important it is to teach history of Europe at school. And of course, we need also some affect some important events, milestones, pillars, as Oriole just mentioned, where to have this magical idea transform into reality. So in fact, we consider that the Ventotene manifesto that was written by Spinelli and his friends when during their time in this remote prison of this island of Ventotene is an important first milestone of the European integration history. And of course our colleague Mario from the Instituto Spinelli will explain why, but for us it was very important to put an emphasis on this for the 80th anniversary of this document, which was drafted in 1942. And you see that if I'm not mistaken, I mean, in a period where everybody was at war, and there were some visionaries, we would already imagine the world and imagine Europe after the war, after the collapse of the Nazi regime and all the fascist regimes, because they were confident that it will happen. And what in Germany and Spinelli, where they didn't know each other at the time, but they were on the on both sides of the Mediterranean, they were working on the same project more or less, because in 1942 and 1943 as well, Germany was in Algiers, working for the General de Gaulle, after the liberation of North Africa of the French territories of North Africa by the Allies. And he was working also on this project that will eventually become the project of the first European community of coal and steel. And he drafted already a map with everything on it about the coal fields and so on, and already a text which was the embryo, so to speak, of the future community. So and you see that Spinelli and his friends, they were right across the Mediterranean on this island and they were also having the same kind of project. So we can see that these men at the time, they were a visionary. And it's important to remember that because most of the time when you teach Europe at school, the teachers, they begin with the treaties, you know, 1957 treaties of Rome and so on, but it could be very difficult for the students to learn about this legislation and so on, what is all about these treaties. But it's important not to forget where it comes from. And it comes from these ideas of these people who were suffering from the war, who had their own, and in the case of Spinelli even more, they were in prison for their ideas. And they were already confident in the future and they were reflecting about peace and about democracy and about freedom. So it's very important. I think it was the main purpose of all this was to talk and to remember this. And it may be in France, Spinelli is not very well known. So thanks to the Instituto, it will be now more. And it's important not to forget about this because Europe was already in the mines before the treaties. So last time, last year, we celebrated the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which is the first, of course, text that was used for launching the project. There were other initiatives like the Council of Europe and so on, which, of course, had their lives on their own, which didn't lead to the community. They were important. But for us, Ventote and Manifesto is one important milestone as well. So I would like to leave the floor now to Mario Leone from the Instituto. Spinelli, we will talk more about this. And I hope that we will have soon, and you, everybody will have soon the opportunity to read online first, the different texts that were gathered in this publication, which is quite innovative. And I hope to have it now soon. And I see that Oriol is expecting the hard copies for today. So we're quite happy to have it soon as well. And it will be in good place on our shelves in our library at the Jean Monnet House. Thank you very much. And Mario, please, the floor is yours. Thank you very much. And thank you to Oriol too. And I'm very happy to be here. And I want to thank you my personal experience about the Manifesto and about Ventotene. And like me, so many people have adept with the Ventotene Island with the woman and the man when I made the deposition to fascism and nazism and wanted to produce that project for a free and united Europe known as the Ventotene Manifesto. I believe that each of us owns adept to those women that deeply. We've led the Arturo Spinelli Institute since its establishment on July 4th in 1987, an experience of passion and maintenance. The training seminar, which is its fourth national edition, organized by the Institute of the Legislative Region and the Ventotene Municipality and also with the Ventotene Citizens. Arturo Spinelli and Ventotene. I think it is an unsurparable pain. The author of Manifesto with Ernesto Rossi and the collaboration of Eugenio Colorni and many others, starting with Ursula Hirschman and Adarozzi, with exclusive data, interestingly, in forcing the isolation, is always present on the island. Spinelli, who died in Rome on May 23, 1986, wants to to rest on the island. Deworn, with his ashes, is in the small cemetery, brought to Ventotene on June 7th by his wife Ursula and daughter Barbara, by the companions of action by Pier Virgilio D'Astoli, Luciano Bolli, Gabriele Benigni, representing the Ratio region, and by the representative of the European Federalist movement and welcomed up on the island in Ventotene by Benimino Verdi. The straight of Spinelli action was such as a contribute to making this island famous. Spinelli records in his memories, if Ventotene has left an indelible mark on me, I have also marked it myself. The Ventotene Manifesto has made the name of the island previously obscure, known throughout Europe among those who will carry out or study the movement towards unity. A plaque at the entrance to the town hall reminds us that our first appeal to action for the European Federation started there. He made his first trip to Ventotene Spinelli on July 13, 1939, after being sentenced by the fastest special court and after having served 10 years in prison and a two-year confinement in Ponza. When I approach Federalist history, I was overwhelmed by the power of fate to always feel ready to show the way. The two masters of Al Tiero, of the mind Ernesto Rossi and of the soul Eugenio Volorni, looking for a solution to exasperate the nationalism, to the discovery of a system that would guarantee international peace in Quentanean Territories. It is an explosion of freedom. The one of those forces to the Confino did not have and Spinelli's consideration returned. The conclusion that I cannot escape is that if for nothing in the world I would want to renounce my freedom, if I defend it in myself against the walls on stones and against those of ideas which surround me, if I agreed to destroy so much of myself for it, I must also want it for my neighbor. The manifesto was the meeting point between two complementary visions of Al Tiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi. Al Tiero Spinelli is the interesting freedom of the individual and the society but also for the idea that this triangle could not stop at borders where socialism was being built. Ernesto Rossi's criticism of capitalism, trade unionism, communism and his project to abolish misery by grafting a piece of communist economic constitution into market economy. The conversion to democracy has led Al Tiero Spinelli to understand that political action should have as its objective to the use of power in the service of freedom and that the national state with the enemy of freedom. Al Tiero Spinelli was perfectly aware to the fact that the further this culture was alien to the political culture existing in European countries that were emerged from the world trying to restore national democracies despite the universalist origin of the Christian moments, internationalist of the socialist and communist parties and cosmopolitan of the forces of liberal inspiration. He knew that these same parties were by no accounts to man by custom and tradition to pose all the problems starting from the desert assumption of the existence of the national state and to consider the problems of the international order as a matter of foreign policy and to be resolved so diplomatic and agreement between various governments. However, it is a confidence that the idea of the European Federation related to war federation were present itself at the end of the war as an achievable goal almost at the end and that forces from all social classes would be interested in it. To the diplomatic part Al Tiero Spinelli what has been called into the manifesto the revolutionary part of popular agitation provoking action states that have no longer been possible to go back. It is the first time that Al Tiero Spinelli presented the manifesto in 1944 that the problem of the European Federation arise on the carpet of a political struggle not a distant idea but as an urgent tragic necessary so that the path that came by the new democracies born on the Second World War was not the demolition of national sovereignities but the reconstruction of national states and back within the limit and within the framework of the process of community integration started in the little Europe of six according to the affectionate model conceived by Shaman Ney who to the goal of creating a federal state had replaced the the whole new one of sovereign nationality. Finally there is a stand-down of Al Tiero Spinelli on three reasons for the relevance of the manifesto which were so in the 1980s on the eve of the Great Upward Chaos therefore by the fall of the Soviet Empire and still today the thought to lay the foundation on the continental European Federation belongs to the current generation and not to a definite generation distant in time. The action to carry the author requires a vast mobilitation on public opinion but above all moment organized according to a revolutionary logic and a divinely aligned between political culture no longer passes between right and left between conservation and progress but between those who will defend the apparent national sovereign and those we are ready to fight for a superior European sovereign that is between immobilizers and innovators. Al Tiero Spinelli and Ursula Gershman's companions in life and federalist commitment left the Venturetta and separated after the adventure of manifesto and she left at the end of 1941 and he left in August 1943 after the fall of Mussolini with the aim of fighting his federalist thinking with the Supernational Policy Action for the United States of Europe. Al Tiero and Ursula returned to the other event Totene for the first time since in 1973 to celebrate the 30 years of the foundation of the Italian-European Federalist movement in Milan and then in October 1981 to commemorate the 40 years of the manifesto and launch the idea of transforming the island in the federalist school to teach girls and boys from all over the planet to become citizens of the world. And Mondo Polini was a journalist and friend of Spinelli. He handed his diaries for the Italian edition in Molino. Polini helped organize at the request of Spinelli an event in Ventotene which motivated by the celebration of the 14th anniversary of the Ventotene manifesto actually wanted to be a moment of a union between the European Federalist movement and the constituent action that Spinelli was carrying out to the European Parliament with the crocodile plant. I would like to remember the pages of diaries edited by Paulini and written by Spinelli on 10 and 11 October 1981 because in my opinion they are among the many death rate on a deep bond that was born in Ventotene during the conference. We hugged Ursula when we arrived while going up from the port to the church square where 42 years ago we met for the first time and we went to lunch together with Renata born from Hirschmann's marriage with Colorni in the apartment that was the canteen of which I was director and I was there. Ursula came and we said goodbye thinking that it could be forever and that we had never told each other anything we want to tell each other. In Ventotene, Arturo Spinelli proposed on 10 October 1980 want to transform the island into a permanent political school for young federalist militants just as it happened in the party school. After the death of Arturo Spinelli, the Italian organization on federalist inspiration, Italian federalist movement, European movement with the support of the Lazio region and the Ventotene municipality and the province of Latina created the institute named after him which is in the same center for reflection, training, awareness and dissemination of federalist thought. The Arturo Spinelli institute has become in Italy the essential part of the work table and coordination of European achievies activities on the island which have been arranged with cultural events and have facilitated the involvement of all the people of Ventotene and in Europe in the framework of the networks of the 60 I think so much now houses of the great Europeans which has been coordinated for many years by the European Parliament under Maison Chamonni. I want to thank the Maison for the great work he is doing to support the ideal of a free and united Europe, the ideal of a Ventotene manifesto. Allow me to close this report with some words of Colorni which we always combine accompanying me and which contain all the sensation of the time and I am lucky enough to live even today during the Ventotene seminar. Love has the most serious and important thing called life as that which brings us closer to another being forgetting about ourselves and wishing that it lives in its essence that is profoundly different from us. I don't want to be Maison or Maison public, publicly at all. I'm only fond of the thought of continuing to mingle for some time with my friend's conversation. So those conversations that have perhaps constituted the purest joy of my life. These are the words used by Colorni and will draw up on May 2, 1943. Colorni was wanted by a group of fascists and in agony on May 30, 1944. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you Mario for this overview on the all the process that led to the manifesto made or started in Ventotene which as said by Philippa and myself it was one of the pillars of the nowadays federalist union. Okay so thank you. It's always a pleasure to to to work with a partner from different countries. Philippe I don't know if you want to add something before giving the floor to our colleagues for the last panel. Yes just something that I forgot of course to mention that we also organize webinars this year a cycle of three webinars which are available on the internet if you want to to access them we can provide the the addresses and they were a cycle with focus on the treaty of Paris of 1951 which was the first European treaty which created the first community of Coen steel and during this cycle we talked about of course the commemoration of the treaty but also of the current policy in Europe on the subject of energy and we also mentioned the future with the Green Deal and we try to analyze whether the method of the small step could be maybe renewed and adapted now for going further into our common policies and especially what concerns environment and energy. So this is something of course it's in French but if you want to access it it's available on the way. Thank you very much again for the organization. Thank you Ariel. So thank you and we give the floor to Deborah Rigetti, Marcos Proust and Aurora Linkai for the last table. Thank you all.