On July 9, 1980 at the Restaurant “Crocodile” in Strasbourg, Altiero Spinelli (1907-1986) met eight MEPs who had welcomed his appeal: “the Community must be reformed or it die”.
Thus was born the “Crocodile Club”, whose action, carried out in particular through the “Letter to the Members of European Parliament”, in the early 1980s, led to the approval in 1984 by the European Parliament of the Draft Treaty on the European Union, which has had a great influence on the development of the European integration process.
We propose here the full version of the “Letter” which took its name from the Club, divided into three periods (1980-1981, 1991-1992 and 1993-1995) for easier access.