The New Federalist, webzine of the Young European Federalist
News, comments & analysis of the EU, Community policies, federalism, constitutional issues and political debates on Europe.
-
SWIFT: Security strikes data protection
After all, the SWIFT agreement was passed in the European Parliament following strong opposition just six months ago, which had then resulted in a rejection of the agreement by the Parliament. The MEPs celebrated being taken as seriously as the US Congress. Now, 484 MEPs supported the agreement and only 109 MEPs rejected it. Conservatives, Social Democrats and Liberals voted in favour of the agreement. To remind you of the American view, SWIFT is about the fight against international (...) Continue
The most recent articles
-
The European Union and the Crisis
The German proposal to reform the Maastricht criteria (in order to have a more binding criteria and heavier penalties for those who do not comply with them) has prematurely ignited a debate on which areas of the public budget have to be cut down. As a result, this debate has drawn attention to (...) Continue
-
Is Europe2020 the right consequence after the failure of the Lisbon Strategy?
It is obvious that the Lisbon Strategy did not succeed, as the EU has surely not become the most competitive global region. Many critics claim that Europe2020 will not be successful either. Europe2020 goes beyond where its predecessor had by using three adjectives “smart, sustainable and (...) Continue
-
Editorial: EU2020
Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth?
Thursday 26 August 2010 by Pia Menning ,
With “Europe 2020” the European Commission proposed a new 10-year-strategy for reviving the economy of the European Union. The strategy was adopted quite quickly after its proposal (3rd of March 2010) in June 2010 by the European Council. From the beginning the successor of the Lisbon-strategy (...) Continue
-
Requirements for Europe2020 – an overview
The European Commission’s initiative to build a new, common strategy for the development of the European Union in the coming decade after the entry into force of the Lisbon Strategy has generally been welcomed. The not very successful Lisbon Strategy mainly failed because of its non-binding (...) Continue
-
The Passive Poisoning of the Romani People
A side victim of the 1999 confrontations, the Romani population in North Kosovo is currently suffering one of the greatest sanitary and humanitarian disasters on the planet, says the WHO. Before the war, about 8000 Roma lived in a quarter of the periphery of Mitrovica called “Roma Mahalla”. The (...) Continue
-
Editorial: Gypsy and Roma People in Europe
The Roma people have long been at the heart of controversies, especially in Europe where they represent one of the largest ethnic minorities, with 10 to 12 million people distributed over many countries. The majority of Roma people suffer extreme levels of social deprivation in many European (...) Continue
Blogs
-
The Federal Union blog
3 September – Defining the future of the European continent -
Grahnlaw
3 September – Open Europe improving its spin on Eurobarometer? -
Jan’s EUblog
26 August – France and German tax systems, EU cooperation -
Jon Worth Euroblog
11 August – Oh, so Citzalia is all my fault -
Eurozone Watch
1 March – Assessing options for Greece
What's new on the Web
-
EuroNews
3 September – Fires spread in southern Russia -
Cafe Babel [en]
3 September – Arianna Huffington: blogger role model for Greek girls -
EurActiv.com
3 September – EU wants to keep IMF seats -
Telos-eu
20 July – Reality TV and the Welfare State
News items
- 4 August – And we are back!
We would like to apologize to our readers for the technical problems we have encountered for the past 2 weeks when our site was down. After having moved to a different server the issues have now been resolved and we hope you will be able to enjoy many more interesting articles and give us your feedback and discuss European and global issues with us!
Your Editorial Team.
- 12 July – Europe dominates the Football World Cup
Of course the true winners of this year’s World Cup are many: first and foremost the game of football itself; second the South African hosts as they showed great support for all the teams despite their home team Bafana, bafana suffering an early exit; and thirdly we as Europeans can be proud that the top three finishers were all European teams with Spain leading the way!
Even Commission President Barroso got enthusiastic about Europe for a change: “In this championship, the European teams were ambassadors of Europe’s spirit, energy and openness,” he said in a statement emailed to press on Monday morning.
- 3 March – EU2020 Strategy
The European Commission has launched today the Europe 2020 Strategy. The Commission identifies three key drivers for growth, to be implemented through concrete actions at EU and national levels: smart growth (fostering knowledge, innovation, education and digital society), sustainable growth (making our production more resource efficient while boosting our competitiveness) and inclusive growth (raising participation in the labour market, the acquisition of skills and the fight against poverty).
The strategy was criticised by some to be not ambitious enough.
- 9 February – New European Commission
The European Parliament approved the new line-up of the European Commission today at 9 February 2010 with 488 votes in favour, 137 against and with 72 abstentions.
The new team will be in charge during the legislative period until 2014.
Read more about it here.
Le Taurillon
- Les priorités de la Présidence belge en matière de sport
jeudi 2 septembre 2010, par 
Le 1er juillet 2010, la Belgique prendra, à la suite de l’Espagne, la présidence du Conseil de l’Union européenne. Avec l’entrée en vigueur du traité de Lisbonne, le sport (...)
- Les conséquences du Traité de Lisbonne pour la République de Moldavie
mardi 31 août 2010, par 
Après la proclamation de l’indépendance de la République de Moldavie, la base juridique de ses relations avec l’Union européenne a été formée par les documents signés entre (...)
Eurobull
- Una tassa sulla speculazione?
giovedì 26 agosto 2010, di 
13.000 miliardi di dollari, secondo i dati del FMI, sono stati stanziati dai Governi nazionali di tutto il mondo per “salvare” il sistema finanziario mondiale. I (...)
- Europa, regole e finanza
venerdì 13 agosto 2010, di 
Vi proponiamo oggi un’intervista realizzata a Bruxelles dal nostro team europeo con Sylvie Goulard, eurodeputata francese (Modem/ALDE) incaricata del pacchetto sulla (...)
Treffpunkt Europa
- Ja zur EU-Steuer!
Montag 16. August 2010, nach Autor 
Der Vorschlag des Finanzkommissars Janusz Lewandowski, eine direkte EU-Steuer einzuführen, ist weder neu noch kompliziert. Doch selbstverständlich löst der Vorschlag (...)
- Pro-/Contra: Hat die EU ein Demokratiedefizit? JA!
Donnerstag 12. August 2010, nach Autor 
Die Europäische Union hat ein Demokratiedefizit. Dafür muss man sich nur einmal die Mühe machen in den Vertrag zu schauen (wenn der nur nicht so schwer zu lesen (...)
The New Federalist is the magazine of the Young European Federalists (JEF).
JEF is an organisation of young people from all over Europe who share a vision of a united, federal and democratic Europe.
Disclaimer: articles published on this website do not necessarily reflect the views of JEF-Europe. Please read about them on our website.
Latest comments
- Alessio : What religion for the EU?
- Drigo : Un stage à la Commission européenne : comment faire ?
- Drigo : Un stage à la Commission européenne
- Valéry-Xavier Lentz : Le PSE doit présenter un candidat à la présidence de la Commission européenne
- Valéry-Xavier Lentz : USA : Le fédéralisme dans tous ses États
The most read articles
- Europe vs. USA: Whose Economy Wins? 55 visits a day
- SWIFT: Security strikes data protection 46 visits a day
- The European Union and the Crisis 28 visits a day
- Is Europe2020 the right consequence after the failure of the Lisbon (...) 27 visits a day
- Editorial: EU2020 19 visits a day
RSS 2.0
OPML 1.1
