Barbara Spinelli

{{short description|Italian politician}}

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Barbara Spinelli (born 31 May 1946) is an Italian politician.

Barbara Spinelli is the daughter of federalist political theorist Altiero Spinelli and Ursula Hirschmann, who was a German-Jewish anti-fascist activist.

From 2014 to 2019, Spinelli served as a Member of the European Parliament, representing Central Italy.{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124810/BARBARA_SPINELLI/home|title=Home - Barbara SPINELLI - MEPs - European Parliament|website=www.europarl.europa.eu}}

Spinelli was elected to represent The Other Europe, but left the alliance in May 2015, after declaring it a "failed project".{{cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/05/11/barbara-spinelli-addio-alla-lista-tsipras-no-ad-atomizzazione-sinistra/1673212/|title=Barbara Spinelli, addio a lista Tsipras un anno dopo il voto: "Progetto fallito"|date=11 May 2015|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano}} She is one of the founders of the newspaper La Repubblica.{{cite news|author=David Broder|title=Resurrecting the Italian Left|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/italy-communist-party-tsipras-list-spinelli/|accessdate=9 May 2016|work=Jacobin Mag|date=6 October 2015}}

Spinelli is a member of the Advisory Panel of DiEM25{{Cite web|url=https://diem25.org/ap/|title = Advisory Panel}}