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On the eve of the Second World War, in the time that intervened between the Munich Pact and the fall of France, amidst British pacifism and on the basis of the forceful ideas proposed by Clarence K. Streit in his volume Union Now,[1] Federal Union understood clearly how to impute war to international anarchy and gave life […]

by Richard Mayne (1926-2009) and John Pinder, Publication date 1990 Read here su Internet Archive AUTHORS ABSTRACT Britain's relationship with its European Community partners has been bedevilled by divergent views about the aim of a political union with federal institutions. Federalism is often depicted in Britain as an alien concept with which the British cannot come to […]

By Francesco Rossolillo (former President of the UEF) The Federalists | Essays | Year XXXI, 1989, Number 1, Page 7 The task in hand. To understand the nature of federalism as a political movement, it is essential to identify its place within the tortuous and contrastive historical flow of events and ideas, and thus to […]

by Ernest Wistrich, Publication date 1989 AUTHOR Ernest Wistrich, for 20 years Director of the European Movement in Britain, then served as President of the Commission for European Citizenship of the International European Movement. ABSTRACT After 1992 (1989) argues that the changes of 1992 will precipitate the transformation of the European Community into a full political and economic […]

Video documentary about the origin of the European Federalism as autonomy political ideology, the Manifesto of Ventotene, the role of Altiero Spinelli, and the political actions of the Federalists until the late '80s. Ventotene and European Federalism (original version in italian) 50 years of European unification history from an idea by Antonio Climati and Sante […]

Federalism in the History of Thought, Year XXX, 1988, Number 2, Page 129 Though forty years have already passed since the Second World War, there is still a widespread conviction that Germans are a very special race. It was on their land that extermination camps were built and it was there that the satanic genius […]

From The Federalist - A political review Year XXVI, 1984, Number 2 - Page 102. I suppose that never in human history has there been so intense and widespread a discussion of the problem of peace as that which has reverberated round the world since the outbreak of the world war in August 1914. That […]

On 14 February 1984, the European Parliament adopts a draft Treaty on European Union, also known as the ‘Spinelli draft’, with a view to bringing about a reform of the Community institutions. Despite the limited impact of the draft Treaty, its adoption motivates the governments of the Member States of the Communities to propose a […]

These are the views presented by Mario Albertini at X Congress of MFE and unanimously approved by the same on 24 February 1980. They were published on issue 1-2 of Il Federalista the same year. By Il Federalista, 1980, Original here I. A New Era. 1. A new age has dawned and new thought must take shape. […]

By Mario Albertini | Thirty Years Ago , Year XXXII, 1990, Number 1 - Page 83 Important conclusions can be reached if we accept that the typical character of the “nation” is not the language, nor the possession of a territory, nor tradition, nor race, by virtue of the fact that these elements are too vague […]

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KENNETH C. WHEARE

Federal Union: the pioneers. A history of Federal Union

Federalism and the Great Ideologies

After 1992. The United States of Europe

Ventotene and European Federalism | 50 years of European unification history (eng)

Ludwig Dehio

Lord Lothian, National Sovereignty and Peace

Draft Treaty establishing the European Union (14 February 1984)

UNITING EUROPE TO UNITE THE WORLD

The Nation, ideological fetish of our time