“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” is Henry Kissinger’s famous question. It’s high time for an answer, and the institutional changes in the EU that will be introduced from 2009 when the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified allow that to happen – only not quite in the way the media has been (...) Continue
Reflections and discussion points for a federalist culture in the 21st century
According to a widely-shared definition, the State, at least the modern State, consists of three basic elements: a territory, its people, and a sovereign power. If this is true, every analysis of the transformations affecting the State brought about by globalization cannot but take those three (...) Continue
The European Council has decided to transform the Constitution into a simple treaty in order to avoid referenda and allow its content to enter into force as soon as possible. The democratic direction started by the European Convention has been buried and a less transparent solution, the (...) Continue
Can you imagine what would happen if the hard-fought compromise of the Reform Treaty did not get through the ratification procedure?? The degree of Euro-pessimism would be far more destructive than the one we have suffered since the French and Dutch referenda in 2005. After that both the (...) Continue
Altiero Spinelli was born on August 31, 1907. His life was marked in an extraordinary way by a rare adherence to the historical events of the past century. In his memories he was aware of this “consonance” between his personal life and the general history he lived both as a spectator and a (...) Continue
Concerned about the latest consequences of the European debate, Pauline Gessant and David Soldini, representing Jeunes européen France and l’Union européenne des fédéralistes, respectively, remind us of the importance of the constitutional objective. The UEF-France and JEF-France are promoting the (...) Continue
On the night of 18th-19th of March 2008 JEF (Young European Federalists) will organise a co-ordinated pan-European action in different cities across the continent to show support to the suppressed civil society and opposition movement in Belarus. JOIN US!
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Yours, Peter Matjašič, Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu
The EU’s borderless zone expanded to nine new member countries - Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, which all joined the EU back in May 2004 - at midnight on Friday (21 December) in its biggest enlargement so far. Land and sea border checks between them and the other Schengen countries are now abolished, while air borders are set to follow on 30 March 2008.
JEF-Europe organises a pan-European action today in more than 50 cities across Europe demaning our flag back to remind the European leaders, who are due to sign the Lisbon/Reform Treaty today in Brussels, of the missing EU symbols in the new treaty.