ABSTRACT: The motion presented by Olivier Dupuis, Paola Ghersina, Lorenzo Strik Lievers and Maurizio Turco, was accepted by the Federal Council as a recommendation.

The Federal Council of the Radical Party, meeting in Rome from January 2 to January 7, 1990,

HAVING POINTED OUT the sheer inadequacy of the political prospects offered by the western European countries in general and by the European Community in particular to the countries of Central and East Europe who are returning to political democracy,

STRESSES likewise the absolute need to proceed to the federalist and democratic reconstruction of the European continent, to both avoid the concrete risks of a new "Balkanization", and to have an adquate answer to the great world challenges of our time,

CONSIDERING, the major political significance of the growing consensus to the argument for joining the European Community which is occurring in practically all the East and Central European countries,

CONSIDERING, moreover, the instrument of the European Community to be totally insufficient to respond to such needs and in many ways a threat to the real development of European democracy,

MAINTAINS the necessity, for this reason, not only to support, but also to promote all those initiatives from these countries which could lead to the "Eropean Constituent" for the Free United States of Europe;

IDENTIFIES in particular, in a possible initative for a referendum in Hungary on this subject, a first decisive impulse on the way to another European foundation based on federalism and democracy, which would immediately involve Prague as Rome, Belgrade as Paris, Warsaw as Berlin, and which would offer an example and a meeting point for debates on the national issue in the USSR;

ADDRESSES A URGENT APPEAL for this purpose, to all the Hungarian parties, of the opposition as of the Government, to adopt this referendum campaign over the next few hours and days thus giving substance to the great federalist and democratic hopes.