Ernesto Rossi

Nationality

Italy

Date of Birth

1897

Date of Death

1967

Political
Preference

Liberal/Socialist

Ernesto Rossi was an Italian politician and journalist who actively opposed fascism. In 1941, Rossi co-authored the Ventotene Manifesto with Altiero Spinelli during their imprisonment in Ventotene. The manifesto is critical of national sovereignty and calls for a European federation to break economic autarchies. This manifesto was the founding document of the European Union of Federalists (UEF). Rossi was an Italian delegate at the Congress of Europe in The Hague in 1948.