Brussels, 17/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - In the run-up to the launch of the Italian six-month Presidency of the Council of the EU, Pier Virgilio Dastoli has been appointed Director of the European Commission's representation bureau in Rome. In 1977 Dastoli was Altiero Spinelli's assistant at the Italian chamber of deputies and the European Parliament, being particularly active in the Crocodile Club that led to the adoption in February 1984 of the Treaty establishing the European Union (the Spinelli document). From 1984 to 1985 he was Mauro Ferri's political assistant, Italy's representative on the Dooge Committee that prepared the way for the Single Act. From 1995 to 2001, he was Secretary General of the Mouvement européen international, chaired first by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, then Mario Soares and then José Maria Gil-Robles. Within the “Mouvement européen”, he ran the “Forum permanent de la société civile” (with Jacqueline de Groote and Raymond Van Ermen) and was involved in the launch of the Agora Academy on the future of Europe (with Jean-Victor Louis and Thomas Jansen).