Dalla nascita della Federazione dei Verdi alla Convenzione internazionale “Verdeuropa” di Firenze (1988): verso una prospettiva ecologica europea dei Verdi italiani

Abstract

In the late 1980s, Green political movements and the ecological debate in Italy led to proposals and initiatives tackling environmental degradation and changes in power relations. Those initiatives aimed to take action at both local and international level. On the wave of a transnational ecological movement and in the context of the anti-nuclear struggle, the Greens (Verdi in Italian) formed a Federation, a new political force in the national party system. After these events and following a first meeting in Pescara in 1986, the Green Federation organised ‘Verdeuropa’ (Green Europe), held in Florence between late October to beginning of November 1988, to gather ideas and projects for a new Europe, oppose nationalism, guarantee the right to the environment and pay off the ecological debt of the global North to the South.

Keywords

• italian greens
• 1988 green europe convention in florence
• green cultures
• anti-nuclear mobilizations
• ecological europe