Thinking Federalist - The New Federalist

Should Belarus join the EU?

Belarus is located at a crossroads of two major cultural areas in Europe (“Western” Europe, more and more shaped by the EU, and Russia). This can be felt through the construction of the country’s national identity and diplomatic relations. If Belarusian culture might be a liaison between Western (…)

Tuesday 12 December 2017

Democratic conventions: for an open method and a European debate

On 7th October 2017, the General Assembly of the Union of European Federalists - France (UEF - France) adopted a resolution on European democratic conventions, following the speech of the French President Emmanuel Macron at the Paris-Sorbonne University. The New Federalist shares it today. (…)

Monday 4 December 2017

Belarus and the EU: a troubled relationship

Since 1st May 2004, Belarus has shared a border with the European Union through Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. This new geopolitical factor is forcing the EU to build a stable relationship with its oriental neighbour despite mutual mistrust standing in the way of effective progress. Will recent (…)

Saturday 2 December 2017

Make love, not walls!

“Build bridges not walls” is quite a famous motto in the pro-European sphere. But at a time when one million “Erasmus babies” were born thanks to the programme, our author Francesca Risso tells us how these bridges can be built: through European love… and sex! Not unlike Rome, a federalized (…)

Monday 27 November 2017

Towards a real European Senate

In the recurrent topic of the democratic deficit in the EU institutions, the lack of transparency of the European Commission is often – and rightly – pointed out. However, the Council of the European Union is rarely even mentioned. And yet, one must be able to know what it is in the first place! (…)

Friday 17 November 2017

Let’s give planetary patriotism a try

“America first” is nothing but an expression of the principle we allow to prevail, Tad Daley writes. Self-interest could be thought of at a wider level than the nation.

Tuesday 3 October 2017

Buggers of Europe

The Brussels correspondent of the French newspaper Libération and blogger Jean Quatremer published this “guide for the eurosceptics” on the occasion of the 60 years of the Rome Treaty. He denounces the lies of the militants’ nationalism and at the same time the guilty insufficiencies of the (…)

Saturday 30 September 2017