UEF: Publications

11/10/2010 // The European Parliament has defined the European Union a “Supranational democracy”. Unfortunately, the citizens’ behaviour mitigates this statement: since the first European election of 1979, until the last election of 2009, the turnout continuously…

01/07/2010 // The crisis in the Monetary Union is at a crucial turning point. On the 9th May the EU governments created a stabilization facility of 750bn euro in an attempt to avoid financial breakdown in heavily indebted member states but because France and…

25/05/2010 // The European Monetary Union is in danger and, since the EMU is the most important achievement of sixty years of European integration, this means that the survival of the European Union itself is also at stake. The cause is not simply the Greek crisis…

18/05/2010 // On October 21 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy, argued that Europe needed better economic government because ‘we have endowed ourselves with a currency, a central bank, a single monetary policy, but not an economic government deserving such a name’. In…

01/03/2010 // The menace of a Greek default shows that there is something wrong in the institutional architecture of the European Union. In the Maastricht Treaty, the EU’s member states decided to create an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Today this acronym is…

20/10/2009 // 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…

10/09/2009 // After the French “no” to the project of a European Constitution the German answer could not be missing. France availed itself of its veto right. Now, the insurmountable limits of the building of Europe fixed in the German Constitution have been made…

The European Citizens’ Initiative. A New Springtime for European Democracy?

European Economic Government and Fiscal Sovereignty. The European Exit Strategy from Financial Crisis

The EU crisis and European Democracy. The role of the European Parliament for an effective European government of the economy

Transforming Economic Governance of the Eurozone

Can a Monetary Union Survive without an Economic Union?

The EU needs a Federal budget

The Bundesverfassungsgericht sentence and the future of the European Union. Analysis of the ruling of the German Constitutional Court from the point of view of the European Federalists