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At the beginning of last week, UEF - in cooperation with JEF and The Spinelli Group - organised a set of events for the first plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. On the evening of Monday the 1st of July, in cooperation with the city of Strasbourg, we held a public debate with new Members of the European Parliament […]

From an early stage, President Macron has always tried to launch a deep European reform process able to generate a political power which is the only thing that can tackle the current challenges and issues. For the first time in the history of European unification, a head of state has taken the unprecedented step of […]

Author SIETSE WIJNSMA, policy advisor on constitutional affairs at the ALDE group of the European Parliament. INTRODUCTION The European Parliament is currently discussing in its committee on constitutional affairs the report on the Composition of the Parliament, concerning the distribution of parliamentary seats. As part of this EP report, it is proposed to introduce transnational […]

BY FRANCESCO GUERZONI, the Policy & Advocacy Officer of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) in the Year 2017. INTRODUCTION Until now, European defence has been fragmented, largely inefficient and structurally dependent on foreign superpowers such as the US. In light of the worsening of Europe’s security environment, Brexit and the US shifting its interests […]

Author DOMENICO MORO, is a member of the national board of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE) and of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF). He is a former director of the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies. INTRODUCTION The security environment of the European Union has changed radically in the past […]

The renowned Spanish documentary filmmaker Albert Solé (‘Bucharest, the lost memory’) reflects on federalism as the ideal political model in a multicultural and diverse world. History, present and future of a proposal that seeks to reconcile the benefits of autonomy and integration in societies marked by the presence of multiple identities. The state of the […]

The Union of European Federalists was founded in Paris in December 1946. While Europe was still in the middle of a brutal war, groups emerged in various countries particularly in Italy, France, Germany and Belgium – calling for European political unity. They were united in the rejection of nationalism and in the belief that the […]

By DAVID GARCIA and PAOLO VACCA SUMMARY As the European Union faces one of the most challenging periods of its history, its institutions and their capacity to adapt to the new situation are sorely tested. This Policy Brief has been conceived as a second contribution to the debate which is taking place in the European […]

BY DOMENICO MORO is a member of the national board of the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE) and of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF). He is a former director of the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies. INTRODUCTION The economic crisis has highlighted the fundamental flaws of the European Economic and […]

DESPERATE PEOPLE, DESPERATE EUROPE Geopolitical turmoil, wars, conflicts, poverty, natural disasters and climate change pushed more than a million people to come to Europe in 2015 alone.1 The total number of new arrivals in this period represented a less than 0.2% addition to the total EU population but the situation has caught the European Union […]

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For a federal European Unemployment Insurance Scheme

Building European Asylum and Immigration Policies and a European Border Service