C’est donc en luttant contre le fascisme qu’Altiero Spinelli a acquis un sens des responsabilités pour le développement de l’Europe en tant que démocratie pacifique et libre et, jusqu’à sa mort, le 23 mai 1986, il a chéri sa liberté, qu’il avait payée le prix fort, et a conservé sa foi inébranlable en une Europe pacifique et unie.
For Altiero Spinelli, then, it was from the struggle against fascism that he acquired a sense of responsibility for Europe’s development as a peaceful and free democracy, and, right up to his death on 23 May 1986, he treasured his freedom, which had been bought at a great price, and maintained his firm faith in a peaceful and united Europe.
