Nilde Iotti: il contributo critico e battagliero per la costruzione di un’Europa democratica

The essay examines the first years of Nilde Iotti's activity in the European Parliament, to highlight her reflections, the battles waged for the construction of a European democratic power. An experience, in the European Parliament, which began in 1969 and ended in 19792, the year in which Iotti left the European seat to occupy the seat of the first female President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic. Nilde Iotti's participation in the European Parliament, a further stage in her "progression", a term she preferred to that of "career", was the result of a new strategy of the Italian Communist Party on the subject of European integration.