former Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu 2006-08
With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty we are (finally) witnessing a greater concentration of power of 27 Member States aimed at achieving a more unified foreign and domestic policy. In this article I shall focus on the issue of EU’s common defence and foreign policy. As is well known (…)
samedi 6 novembre 2010
Yesterday, 15th September 2010, federalism was at the core of the European Parliament (EP) again. Thanks to the initiative of Guy Verhofstadt (President of the ALDE Group), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (President of the Greens), Isabelle Durant (Vice-President of the European Parliament) and Sylvie (…)
jeudi 16 septembre 2010
By listening to this grand man speak one didn’t have so much the impression of being in front of a Pole but rather to be in the company of a true European. This affiliation to the general European interest which characterised him was one of the things that made him a likely candidate to occupy (…)
mardi 15 juillet 2008
Two days ago the European Parliament blew its 50 candles. Half a century ago, on 19 March 1958 the new European parliamentary Assembly held its inaugural meeting – four years later in 1962 it was renamed into the “European Parliament”. In the beginning the European Parliament consisted of 142 (…)
samedi 22 mars 2008
The Assembly of Kosovo on Sunday, 17 February 2008, declared independence of the province situated in the south of Serbia with a population of more than 90% ethnic Albanians out of its 2,2 million inhabitants. Let us take a critical look at the role of the European Union. “From now on, Kosovo (…)
jeudi 21 février 2008
The Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik raised a scoop : the USA addressed a document to Slovenia who currently chairs the Council of the European Union… to give it instructions on how it should manage the European Union during the first six months of 2008. We thus give a red card to the American (…)
samedi 16 février 2008
While the Lisbon Treaty was being signed by the Heads of State and Governments of the European Union’s 27 member states, the Young European Federalists mobilised themselves in all of Europe to express their will of a Europe United that is build by the people, with the people and for the people (…)
vendredi 14 décembre 2007
The ceiling on the budget of the European Union at 1.24 % of the GDP of Member States does not allow the implementation of policies that meet the expectations of citizens : the creation of a European foreign and defence policy, investments in research... This is explained by the total (…)
mercredi 7 novembre 2007
The Constitution is dead, long live the Constitution ! Is this how we could sum up the results of the German EU Presidency ? The reality offers far less enthusiasm and is much more complex. Angela Merkel as European Council President managed something that was almost deemed impossible, namely (…)
dimanche 1er juillet 2007
“Do you allow us to speak about Europe ?” was the phrase with which the renown journalist Patrick Poivre d’Arvor tried to tackle the European subject (classified in the rubric “international relations”) after two hours of Franco-French discussions. The debate on Europe would deserve to be (…)
samedi 5 mai 2007
Bronislaw Geremek, a great figure of the anticommunist opposition, refuses to be subjected to a new Polish law of lustration (“Decommunization”) to the risk to be deposed of its mandate as Europarliamentarian at the request of the Polish authorities. Geremek received a majority support of his (…)
samedi 28 avril 2007
These days Ukraine is once again facing tensions after the pro-Western President Yushchenko decided to dissolve the Parliament and called new elections. The events of the last days are likely to produce a civil war or put an end to the Orange Revolution. Let us return to one of the principals at (…)
mercredi 11 avril 2007
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