TOWARDS THE
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
Since 1946 fighting for a
Eurepean Federation
Eurepean Federation
The Union of European Federalists is a supranational, non-governmental political organization of women and men who are committed to the struggle for a European Federation, intended as the fundamental first step along the road towards world federation.
TOWARDS THE
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
Since 1946 fighting for a
Eurepean Federation
Eurepean Federation
The Union of European Federalists is a supranational, non-governmental political organization of women and men who are committed to the struggle for a European Federation, intended as the fundamental first step along the road towards world federation.
The road ahead is not easy, nor safe.
But it must be pursued, and it will be!
EUROPEAN FEDERALISM:
THE ONLY WAY TO UNITE EUROPE PRESERVING DIVERSITY
THE ONLY WAY TO UNITE EUROPE PRESERVING DIVERSITY
The Union of European Federalists “works for the creation of a European Federation, endowed with supranational institutions with limited but real sovereign powers, consisting of: a Federal Government, a Parliament elected by direct universal suffrage, a Federal Senate representing Member States and possibly the Regions, a Court of Justice,” (art. 2 of the Statutes of UEF)
This new institution is a political creation of a constitutional nature, which can only come into being by the will of the governments of the European states and with the consent of the European citizens.
The European Union, as we know, it is an international organisation with supranational powers and competences, but it is not yet a sovereign power (it has no power over citizens and cannot act with policies like a normal State) and fully democratic (many EU powers are managed by national governments – as the Council of the EU and European Council - and not by democratically legitimised bodies).
This is why UEF's political campaigns and activities are aimed at multiple actors: citizens (both as individuals and in its organized forms: NGOs, trade unions, political parties etc...), governments and parliaments of European states, and the European institutions (the institutional bodies that anticipate the future life of the European federation).
Only in a federal Europe can so many and diverse member states come together and achieve unity while preserving their diversities.
Only in federal Europe smaller states are protected and European citizens have a say through their directly elected representatives.
Only with a federal Europe the limits of intergovernmental cooperation can be overcome.
In a federal Europe, member states wouldn’t lose sovereignty, they would contribute to create a greater European sovereignty, in a world of continental powers and global powerful market forces.
FROM THE TRAGEDY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR COMES THE IDEA OF A UNITED AND FEDERAL EUROPE
The Union of European Federalists was founded in Paris on December 15 and 16, 1946.
It was founded shortly after World War II with the belief that only a European Federation, based on the idea of unity in diversity, could overcome the division of the European continent that had caused the suffering and destruction of the two World Wars.
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 only way to peace, democracy and a better future was for European states to unite in a European federation. Soon after the war they came together to form our organization.
Peace in Europe is the keystone of world peace. Indeed, in the space of a single generation, Europe has been the epicentre of two world conflicts that have stemmed, above all, from the existence, in this continent, of 30 sovereign states. The priority must be to put an end to this anarchy through the creation of a federal union of European peoples.