I Verdi italiani tra politica nazionale e proiezione europea

This volume reconstructs the history of the Italina Greens (Federazione dei Verdi), with a particular focus on programmes and actions drawn up with reference to the process of European integration. Since their rise as a new political actor, which grew out of the aggregation of civic lists, committees, associations, and ecological movements on the wave of the anti-nuclear mobilisation begun in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the 20th century up to the decline of the last two decades, the Italian Greens have contributed to the development of a critical orientation towards the European Community and then the European Union, aimed at the formation of a federation that can guarantee peace, democracy and eco-sustainability. In a period characterised by the end of the Cold War, by major changes at European and international level and by new political, economic and ecological challenges, the work carried out by Italian Green MEPs in the European Parliament since 1989, first in the Green Group and then, since 1999, in the Green Group/European Free Alliance of the European Parliament, has assumed particular relevance