Crocodile Club
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The Crocodile Club was an informal group of
The group was founded on 9 July 1980, a year after the Parliament's first direct elections, by nine cross-party MEPs including Altiero Spinelli. The meeting was held at the "Au Crocodile" restaurant (10 rue de l'Outre, Strasbourg) giving the club its name. The club was formally constituted in September of that year, and in those two months the membership of the club had grown to sixty. Within a year it grew to one hundred and eighty, almost half the members of the Parliament.[1]
It was on the initiative of the club that Parliament established a new committee to deal with institutional reform of the then
Following the death of Spinelli in 1986, a group of MEPs established the "Altiero Spinelli action Committee for European Union", a federalist intergroup intended to take on the work started in 1980 by the Crocodile Club.[2]
See also
- The Spinelli Group
References
- ^ a b The myth of Europa - The Ventotene manifesto europaallalavagna.it
- ^ a b From Ventotene to the European Constitution Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, edited by Agustín José Menéndez
External links
- The Crocodile Club Resolution, speech to the Parliament by Spinelli
- Federalist intergroups - www.altierospinelli.org
- Restaurant website