ABSTRACT: Some of the most important problems of our time increasingly call for the active presence of supranational institutions. Similarly, the objectives which the radical party pursues call for its transformation into a transnational organization.

(For the United States of Europe, edited by Roberto Cicciomessere, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Gianfranco Spadaccia - Supplement of Radical News N. 68 of 5 April 1988)

This European transnational party does not exist. The Radical Party has decided to become such party. It is the only party in the current European scene which can achieve this objective.

Throughout the years, the radical Party has developed the belief that the essential institutional form and political means to achieve the objectives it pursues, which have remained necessarily unaccomplished, are represented on the one hand by the United States of Europe and on the other by the aggregation into a new supranational force of all those who deem it a political priority of our time to assert "the right to life and the life of rights". As far as starvation is concerned, the Manifesto of Nobel Laureates stated that "a new political will a new specific organization of this will are needed, which should be directly and explicitly aimed - with absolute priority - to overcoming the causes of this tragedy and to avert its effects immediately".

The campaign for an active security based on the reduction of the threats to security, represented on the one hand by that huge powder-keg represented by the millions of starving people and on the other by the totalitarian regimes and by the decision-making processes, in the sense of life or death, which are taken in the absence of any democratic negotiation, calls for the existence of supranational institutions endowed with effective powers and a supranational law, as well for a transnational force to promote them. Also, the battle for democracy and the rule of law in Italy is doomed to fail if we do not address the crisis of democracy and rule of law which affects all European countries to varying degrees as an effect of the incapacity of the national institutions and of the few supranational institutions to give a political answer to the economic and political problems of the moment. Also, the counterpart of a battle against pollution and for the environment tackling the risks of the nuclear plants of Tri

no Vercellese and of Malville, of the chemical plants of the Reno and of Genua, of the pollution of the Mediterranean or the atmospheric pollution in the skies of Europe can no longer be a national battle. Unless we consider possible the request for an armed intervention of our country against those States that continue to build nuclear plants which flood the atmosphere with toxic gas or which discharge waste into the common waters of the Mediterranean. The struggle for the construction of forums of supranational law is therefore essential and vital for the very survival of the radical party and of its objectives as they have been pinpointed by the congress motions.