Posted on 11 December 2018
The fonds of Samuele Pii, former member of Movimento Federalista Europeo and Gioventù Federalista Europea, is now available for consultation at the HAEU and the inventory is available online.
The fonds was deposited at the Archives in June 2016 and consists of 126 dossiers. The documents reflect Samuele Pii's activities, mainly as a militant of the Gioventù Federalista Europea (GFE) and of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE) from 1995, and include correspondence, reports of seminars, conferences and federalist activities, press reviews, articles, official MFE and GFE documents. The fonds also includes a series of documents concerning the work of the European Convention of which Pii was member of the Youth Convention for the Future of Europe.
Samuele Pii studied History of European Integration at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Florence, with a thesis on the work of the European Convention. His political commitment began with militancy in the MFE and its youth section, the GFE, in which he held numerous positions, including from 1999 until 2007 that of president. He was spokesman for youth delegations during meetings with politicians (Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic from 1999 to 2006; Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004; Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995), and in acknowledgment of his efforts he was appointed "European citizen of the year" in 2000. He participated in numerous youth conventions, he was a speaker at conferences and seminars. In 2006 he represented JEF-Italia during the visit of President Napolitano to Ventotene, on the occasion of the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Altiero Spinelli's death. Between 2007 and 2009 he held the position of president of JEF-Europe.
Access Samuele Pii’s fonds here.