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ITALIAN | FRENCH | GERMAN The European Letter has sent to the MPs and MEPs of the following Parliaments: European Parliament, Italian, French, German, Austrian, Spanish, Belgian, Netherland Parliaments. On 22 November, the Report on the proposals of the European Parliament's for the Amendment of the Treaties (2022/2051(INL)) was voted by the European Parliament. This […]

NEWS OF EUROPE We wrote about it last week: the European Parliament's committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted the draft report and amendments on Treaty change proposed by Spinelli Group members Guy Verhofstadt, Sven Simon, Gabriele Bischoff, Daniel Freund, and Helmut Scholz. However, EU's governments did not wait for the final vote at the plenary to discuss treaty reform. Last week […]

A new way to elect the EU president? No more VETO voting? The European Parliament has set the stage for a potential seismic shift towards a more federalized European Union with a new proposal that seeks to alter the bloc's fabric in three substantial ways. This initiative calls for a comprehensive reshaping of EU institutions, […]

News of Europe The first step towards EU institutional reform. On Wednesday, lawmakers of the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee widely approved the draft report on the amendment of the treaty proposed by Spinelli Group members Guy Verhofstadt, Sven Simon, Gabriele Bischoff, Daniel Freund, and Helmut Scholz. With 19 votes for, six against, and one abstention, this vote marks […]

Dear readers, Just a couple of days after the UEF's Federal Committee meeting in Brussels, welcome to the latest edition of News of Europe. This time, we'll deviate from our usual review of the news on the continent and focus on the UEF's own activities. Happy reading, Back from the UEF Federal Committee.The UEF held last […]

By JEAN-PIERRE GOUZY First pubblication: The Federalist, A political Review, Essay, Year XLVI, 2004, Number 1, Page 12, LINK Italian Version here LINK After the First World War, during the 1920s, a European current of thought arose from the inability of organising the European states and people according to an international natural order suited to […]

What should be the ultimate aim of a constituent convention? In 1780, well before the convening of the Philadelphia Convention, Hamilton, writing to lames Duane, then member of Congress for New York State, provided a clear answer to this question, setting out what he considered to be the defects of the confederation. Here, we reproduce […]

We publish the Appeal that the UEF and the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament have launched in order to call together the forces that intend to fight to build a sovereign and democratic Europe. The first signatories of the Appeal are the members of the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament from the main […]

Dear readers, Brussels woke up this morning in terror after a gunfire took the lives of two Swedish nationals. The UEF sends its condolences to the families of the victims. And now, to your newsletter, Last week, the UEF's Political Commission on Institutional Affairs hosted a live debate on the AFCO Report and the Process for Treaty Reform. You can […]

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Mapping the cost of non-Europe (2022-2032)

EL76 | Parliament activates the Treaty Revision procedure: the significance of the vote and Europe's priorities

News of Europe | 18/2023

The Proposal of the AFCO to reform the EU Treaties

News of Europe | 17/2023

News of Europe | 16/2023

The saga of the European Federalists during and after the Second World War

Alexandre Hamilton

Our federal Europe sovereign and democratic

News of Europe | 15/2023