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Wednesday 5 March 2008 by Jon Worth ,
“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
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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
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Strategies for JEF
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
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Friday 12 October 2007 by Philippe Adriaenssens ,
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
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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
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… today as much as yesterday
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
- 18 March – European youth against the Belarus dictatorship!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!Belarus Action 2008
- 1 January – EURO of 15Today Cyprus and Malta have given up their respective national currencies to adopt the Euro thus enlarging the Eurozone to 15 members.Read more about it here.
- December 2007 – ALL THE BEST IN 2008!Dear readers! I would like to thank you all for keeping up with our online magazine, browsing through our articles and getting involved in the forum debates. For the coming year I wish you many happy and memorable moments and hope to see you back on our site soon. Yours, Peter Matjašič, Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu
- December 2007 – Schengen Enlargment - Europe United!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.Read more about it here.
- December 2007 – I want my EU flag back!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.Read more about it here.
- December 2007 – Key climate summit opens in BaliGovernments at a key UN climate summit will discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the current Kyoto Protocol targets expire in 2012.Read more about it here.
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