UEF: Publications

13/02/2012 // The decision of 25 EU governments to endorse a fiscal compact marks a turning point in the sovereign debt crisis. Now a debate on the political future of the EU begins.

09/01/2012 // The European Parliament should call a convention where all actors can debate the future of the EU in order to tackle the so-far faulty Franco-German 'directoire', says Guido Montani, vice president of the European Federalists Union.

09/01/2012 // Franco Spoltore, the Secretary General of UEF Italy, gives his thoughts on European federalism in an article published on lemonde.fr on 5 January 2012.

19/12/2011 // Not cock-up but conspiracy. Not stupid but sabotage. That is the inevitable verdict on the British government’s performance at the European summit on December 8-9. David Cameron’s coalition government was driven by the need to avoid a referendum on…

05/12/2011 // Andrew Duff analyses the last stances of Germany and France and explains the necessity of a new Convention.

19/10/2011 // At a time when the European Union has to address difficult challenges, the United Kingdom is very reluctant to progress towards a federal union. Andrew Duff gives his thoughts on the question of the place of the United Kingdom in the EU in an article…

05/09/2011 // In spite of Mrs Merkel and Mr Sarkozy a Fiscal Union is under way. The historian in search of some examples to explain the Hegelian concept of the cunning of reason (List der Vernuft) to his/her pupils can go back to the behaviour of the European…

09/05/2011 // The European project is facing a crisis. Citizens no longer understand what the EU is about. Young people and the new ruling class have forgotten the clear message of the European project launched just after the Second World War “No wars ever again…

11/01/2011 // Jean-Claude Trichet has recently said that – since the Maastricht Treaty (1991) – only the monetary side of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been carried out; the “E” is still an empty box. The euro is doomed to be a wobbly project until…

20/10/2010 // At the end of last year’s financial turmoil, Jean-Claude Trichet[i], President of the ECB, said in an interview that “the Stability and Growth Pact is the legal framework that we have as a quid pro quo for the fact that we do not have a federal…

After the fiscal compact, European democracy

"No" to a phoney Fiscal Union, "yes" to a Federal Government

Article by Franco Spoltore, Secretary General of MFE, on Le Monde online

The new British policy of sabotage

Maastricht treaty tested to destruction, by Andrew Duff

"Britain’s European dilemma", Andrew Duff's latest article on the Financial Times

Towards a New Model of Federal State

European growth without European democracy? How European citizens can revive the European project and defeat euroscepticism

Plan "E": For the European Economic Union. The Federal Alternative to the European Super-State

The EU needs a Federal budget