 In April 2018, workers of the Italian section of Alcoa, an American industrial corporation, get a 5% of shares and a place on the board of the new company created by Swiss-based Sider Alloys' acquisition of the Sardinian aluminium mine.Calenda stated that "it will be the first case in which workers participate in the management of a company and they have fully deserved it".In January 2019, Calenda launched his political manifesto "Siamo Europei" ("We Are Europeans") with the aim of creating a joint list composed by PD and other progressive and Europeanist parties for the May's European election, in which he was elected in the North-East constituency, receiving more than 270,000 votes.