Thinking Federalist

Not everybody wishes more transparency and communication in Europe...Berlusconi’s attempt to ’shut up’ Commissioners and their Spokespersons. CARTON ROUGE!

“My position will be clear and precise. We will not give our vote, thus blocking the function of the European Council, unless it is clear that no Commissioner or spokesperson can speak in public about any issue”, declared Mr Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minster, talking to the Italian press on (...)

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Final chance for Lisbon say federalists. It’s time to move on.

On 21st September, JEF Europe (Young European Federalists) will launch its second YES campaign for the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland, through the campaign network ’European Youth for an Irish YES’. The network will gather over 30 young people from Ireland and across the continent (...)

Sunday 20 September 2009

Why should the EU Council have a strong leader?

For years it has been clear that the EU; certainly one of the most powerful economic blocks in the world, has been lacking a definite leadership. Russia, China and the US have their own individual leaders and that is what makes them, in most cases, more influential than the EU when it comes to (...)

Saturday 12 September 2009

Challenges that ONLY FEDERALISTS can take on

Exactly 30 years after the Federalists had finally succeeded in getting the representatives of the peoples of Europe directly elected to the European Parliament (EP), the new MEPs are starting off their mandate in Brussels with the lowest degree of legitimacy ever. With the turn-out for the (...)

Friday 21 August 2009

Young European Federalists remind MEPs of their duties

Today, on Tuesday 14 July 2009, the Young European Federalists (JEF) will have an action in the Geremek court of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in order to focus the new MEPs attention on the need for a stronger European Union. Between 8h30 and 12h30 this morning, a group of 20 (...)

Tuesday 14 July 2009

Federalise EU development aid for more, better and faster delivery

More than $1 trillion in development aid has been poured into Africa over the past 50 years but this has only helped to perpetuate a vicious circle of poverty, argues Dambisa Moyo in her book “Dead Aid”.* She demands the phasing out of all foreign government aid within the next five years in (...)

Sunday 5 July 2009

Federalist insights for Sri Lanka reconciliation

With the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan (LTTE) in mid-May 2009, their proposal of a ‘two-State solution’ for the island is probably dead forever. The idea of creating a Tamil State from the north and part of the east of Sri Lanka was unrealistic from the start as Tamils (...)

Thursday 18 June 2009

Barroso vs. Barroso? Give the MEPs a chance to listen to different alternatives!

“Looking at the results of the EP elections, there is one clear message” states the President of JEF Europe (Young European Federalists) Samuele Pii, “the low participation shows that European citizens haven’t been given an opportunity to have a say on the future of the EU.” “We blame the main (...)

Monday 15 June 2009

Federalism and International Democracy in Latin America and the World

Interview to Fernando Iglesias, M.P. Republica Argentina, Executive Secretary of Democratia Global (Movimento pro Uniòn Global latinoamericana y el Parliamento Global) and member of the WFM Council How do you perceive the blocks and stoppages that have occurred since 2005 in the process of (...)

Saturday 25 April 2009

PES campaign launch without flesh - where is their candidate?

This Tuesday the Party of European Socialists (PES) launched their election manifesto. But as long as PES fails to nominate their candidate to the position as Commission president we have to ask our self how serious they are in profiling themselves as one political party and giving Europe’s (...)

Friday 13 February 2009

Proudhon: Pioneer of the Civil Society

Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) was born on 15th January and died on 16th January and so with these days we can mark either the anniversary of his birth or his death. Proudhon along with Karl Marx (1818-1883) are the two great writers of social progress in the 19th century. Proudhon along (...)

Thursday 15 January 2009

Europe and Society

If there is no Federation without Federal State, there is not a federation without a federal society either. Even if, according to the Community treaties, Nation-States have in the long run accepted the existence of a European citizenship, the nationality of our countries of origin is not (...)

Thursday 1 January 2009
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