30/07/2025
Brussels, June 25, 2025
The Vice-President of Europa Union Deutschland (UEF Germany), Gabriele Bischoff, MEP S&D, will take over the rotating Presidency of the parliamentary intergroup. He was appointed today by the Spinelli Group Board meeting in Brussels.
As Gabriele Bischoff inherited the rotating presidency of the Spinelli Group from Lukas Mandl, MEP EPP, the UEF stands beside her leadership and ensures her the support of all federalists.
The Spinelli Group and the UEF warmly thank Lukas Mandl for his chairmanship.
“It has been an honor to serve as Chair of the Spinelli Group for the past nine months. Many Europeans, are concerned regarding the future of this European Union and of the European continent. What they demand is a reform of the European Union. So how would a reform of the European Union work? It works through an EU treaty. Since the Treaty of Lisbon there was no treaty reform at all, but this is how an EU reform works, via treaty changes, via a treaty reform.” Lukas Mandl.
The revision of the European Treaty has been a long-standing demand of the UEF. Gabriele Bischoff stressed the importance of making the Treaty reforms and aswers to the questions of social justice and the reduction of inequality the focus of her work together with the Spinelli Group.
Gabriele Bischoff said: "Thank you very much for your trust. It is a great honour for me to be the new chair of the Spinelli Group. As the first woman to hold this office, but certainly not the last, I am particularly looking forward to this task.
The Spinelli Group is committed, in the spirit of the Ventotene Manifesto, to deeper European integration and the further development of the EU and its treaties.
The Ventotene Manifesto, written in 1941, emphasised even then that a united Europe can only be strong if it can provide answers to questions of social justice and the reduction of inequality.
In this sense: ‘The road ahead is neither easy nor safe. But it must be taken, and it will be taken!"
