#FromTheArchives: Altiero Spinelli, a great pioneer of the EU, died #OnThisDay in 1986. In his ‘Spinelli Plan’, he led the proposal for a new European treaty and a constitution, also known as the Draft Treaty Establishing the European Union.
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National parliaments rejected the plan; the European Parliament approved it. However, the work paved the way for the 1986 Single European Act.
Read about it in ‘Battling for the Union’: https://europa.eu/!MBMFQb and this @EUI_EU Jean Monnet Lecture: https://europa.eu/!fG6DDB
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUPublications/status/1661080809812656128
