The Déclaration of European resistances is a text presenting a project of European Federation, published on July 7th, 1944 to Geneva on the initiative of Ernesto Rossi, Altiero Spinelli, Henri Frenay and other chiefs of European resistance.

Genesis

This declaration makes following the meeting in secrecy at Pasteur Willem Adolf Visser' T Hooft, in Geneva, the March 31st, April 29th and May 20th, 1944 of militants of the resistance movements of several European countries who discuss together the problems involved in the rebuilding, after the war, of democratic Europe on federal bases.

May 20th, 1944, they publish fruit of their work, the Manifeste of European Resistance , still with the state of project.

On July 6th and 7th 1944, the delegates of several national movements of resistance meet again to adopt and publish the final version of the text.

Contents

The goal of the federation is to guarantee peace and to allow the economic rebuilding while putting an end to nationalisms and protectionisms of pre-war period, like by integrating Germany into equality with the other Member States, in order to not reproduce it the errors of 1919.

The main feature of the Federal union is the abandonment of the national sovereignty of each Member State, in term of defense of its territory and foreign policy with the Federal union.

The structure of the Federal union is made up of three bodies:

• a government responsible towards the people for the Member States
• an army placed under the orders of this government, replacing the national armies
• a supreme court charged to judge the disagreements between Member States or the Federation and the States

Range

This declaration, very little known, did not have any direct continuation concretely.

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