The New Federalist

The 2009 elections: let the voice of the European people be heard!

With ten months to go before the European elections, European citizenship has still to be assimilated by many. And yet this citizenship is a reality, and it is these elections which offer the opportunity to give the citizens of Europe a voice. With the French presidency of Europe reaching its (...)

Thursday 11 September 2008

Ten Years of the International Criminal Court: The Slow but Sure Growth of World Law

July 17 marked the 10th anniversary of the Diplomatic Conference in Rome that established the International Criminal Court — a major step in the creation of world law. “For nearly a half a century — almost as long as the United Nations has been in existence — the General Assembly has (...)

Tuesday 9 September 2008

Yves Lecocq: “hunting for the conservation of biodiversity in Europe”

Interview with Dr. Yves LECOCQ, Secretary General of FACE, the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Biodiversity in the EU. [The New Federalist: Dr. LECOCQ, you are following European conservation and hunting politics since 1983. Could you briefly tell the readers some facts about your (...)

Saturday 6 September 2008

A European Initiative for the International Financial Crisis

Globalization has brought about a radical change in the balance of power in the world and in particular it has broken down the “bronze law” that gave 20 percent of world population the use of 80 percent of world resources. Such changes are comparable to the events of the industrial revolution (...)

Thursday 4 September 2008

Coming in From the Cold : The Phantom Republics to Join the UN

The announcement by President Dmitri Medvedev of Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has added a new, if expected, element to the situation in Georgia. The Russian negotiators had warned that if Kosovo were recognized by the European Union (EU), Russia would then recognize South (...)

Saturday 30 August 2008

The Federalist Flag, the Battle-Flag for Europe

It was probably Duncan Sandys, a British conservative, Churchill’s son-in-law, who had been given the task to develop the European Movement in Great Britain, who proposed for the first time the flag with a big E as the symbol of European unity. The irony of history made it so that the inventor (...)

Thursday 28 August 2008

William Horstley: “media freedom in Europe is in retreat”

William Horsley, the representative of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) Media Freedom, answers to some questions regarding the research on the freedom of press. [Le Taurillon : Could you explain the reasons and the context of the survey? [William Hortsley : The spur which drove (...)

Friday 22 August 2008

South Ossetia: A Frozen Conflict Melts

As the eyes of much of the world was focused on the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing on 8/8/08, Georgian troops moved into the province of South Ossetia to restore Georgian control. South Ossetia had declared its independence from Georgia at the time of the break up of the Soviet Union in (...)

Wednesday 20 August 2008

A political earthquake that will send shivers down London’s spine

On July 24, the Scottish National Party (SNP) immediately asked for a General Election, following Labour’s disastrous loss in their heartland and in Gordon Brown’s back yard. There is nothing to suggest however, that the Prime Minister will resign or call early elections, considering that Labour (...)

Monday 18 August 2008

Goodbye to Media Freedom?

Members of the Association of European Journalists make up a network of journalists across Europe who monitor and assess violations of legitimate freedom of the media. In this Update to our original Survey, Goodbye to Freedom? (November 2007), we present further research from 15 countries which (...)

Saturday 16 August 2008

The European Union in the World: Sketches from the Future

‘I promised change and that’s what we’ve got. Hope and change…’ bellowed President Obama. No-one could doubt this. The complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in the space of just fourteen months had been a major political coup for the ‘Peoples President’. ‘…America has broken free from the (...)

Wednesday 13 August 2008

The Creation of a European Rapid Reaction Force by an Avant-Guard Group of Countries: a Proposal (3/3)

The proposal contained in this document provides for the creation of a European Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) by an avant-guard group of European countries, as a first step towards a European policy of security controlled by a European Federal government. It is founded on the contents of the (...)

Monday 11 August 2008
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