| Barbara Spinelli | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
| Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start: | 1 July 2014 |
| Term End: | 2 July 2019 |
| Constituency: | Central Italy |
| Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Party: | Independent |
| Otherparty: | The Other Europe (2014-2015) |
| Partner: | Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (until his death; 2010) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Mawards: | is not set --> |
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.[1]
Spinelli was elected to represent The Other Europe, but left the alliance in May 2015, after declaring it a "failed project".[2] She is one of the founders of the newspaper La Repubblica.[3]
Spinelli is a member of the Advisory Panel of DiEM25[4]
She has three older maternal half-sisters (Silvia, Renata and Eva) from her mother's first marriage to Eugenio Colorni and two sisters (Diana and Sara). Her half-sister Eva Colorni, an economist, was married to a fellow Indian economist Amartya Sen from 1973 until her death in 1985. Another half-sister, Renata Colorni, is a translator.