Rome, January 25 - Italy wants a different European Union, one with more growth and more rights, Premier Matteo Renzi wrote on his website Monday. Italy wants "a more socially oriented Europe, more growth, more rights - a Europe capable of being more daring and of working better than it does today," the premier wrote. Renzi said he will visit the island of Ventotene next Saturday in a sign of this renewed desire for a different, more cohesive and socially inclusive EU. The small island off the coast of Lazio housed a Fascist prison during World War II, and two of the founding fathers of the European Union were held there by the Mussolini dictatorship. This was where Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi came up with the Ventotene Manifesto of 1941, which was circulated within the Italian Resistance and soon became the programme of the European Federalist Movement. The Manifesto encouraged a federation of European states in a bid to prevent future wars. "During their Fascist incarceration Spinelli, Rossi and their comrades had the lucidity and the vision to build the future," Renzi wrote. "They were in prison, World War II was raging outside, and yet they were imagining the United States of Europe". Former Communist Spinelli was a member of the European Commission for six years and an MEP for 10 years, right up until his death in 1986. The main building of the European Parliament in Brussels is named after him.