Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development


2. Yet progress has been made. Throughout much of the world, children born today can expect to live longer and be better educated than their parents. In many parts, the new-born can also expect to attain a higher standard of living in a wider sense. Such progress provides hope as we contemplate
Altiero Spinelli



powers was successful, it would be in vain if it merely led to the re-establishment of the old European system of sovereign nation-states in shifting alliances. This would inevitably lead to war again. The document called for the establishment of a European federation by the democratic powers
Political groups of the European Parliament


The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies because it organizes itself around ideological, rather than national, groups. [ 1 ] These political groups of the European Parliament are groups of MEPs . In some cases a Group is the formal representation of a European








