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Nothing can be achieved without people, nothing endures without institutions
Jean Monnet (1888-1979)

The real Europe, the European potential


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CALENDAR

July 1st: Danish UE Presidency

September: Sweden's general elections

September 22nd: Germany's general elections

January 1st 2003: Greek UE Presidency

spring: Elections in Belgium and Finland.

July 1st: Italian UE Presidency

fall: Austria and Portugal's general elections.

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NICE TREATY RATIFICATION

DEPOSITATO: 10
RATIFICATO: 2
APPROVATO: 2
RESPINTO: 1

Austria Jan 8, '02
Belgium Mar 28 '02
Denmark Jun 13, '01
France Oct  19, '01
 Finland Jan 29, '02
Germany Feb 11, '02
 Greece Mar 20 '02
Italy Mar 26 '02
Ireland Jun 7, '01
(NO in a referendum, a new poll expected this year)
Luxembourg Set 24, '01
The Netherlands Dec 28, '01
 Portugal Jan 18, '02
 Spain Dec 27, '01
 Sweden Jan 25, '02
United Kingdom Jan 28,'02

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ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS

Closed chapters out of 31:

Slovenia: 26
Czech Rep., Cyprus, Hungary: 24
Latvia, Lithuania: 23
Slovak Rep.: 22
Estonia, Malta, Poland: 20
Bulgaria: 17
Romania: 10
Turkey: 0

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A CONSTITUTION FOR THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION
The establishment of the Convention on the future of Europe can open the way for the creation of the European Federation, to guarantee the Europeans a future of peace and prosperity and a voice in the world.

Or it can end up in nothing more than warm speeches and fuzzy rhetoric, leaving the Union weak, divided and undemocratic.

This is the challenge today.

The Union of European Federalists (U.E.F.) and the Young European Federalists (JEF) demand that the Convention seizes this historic opportunity.
The Convention can act as a genuine Constituent Convention and present a bold proposal for a European Constitution to transform the Union into a democratic Federation.

The Constitution should contain at least the following points:

  1. a democratic supranational Government, expressing the will of the European citizens;
  2. the Council of Minister should be transformed into a second chamber, giving up its executive tasks, and exercising all legislative power in co-decision with the European Parliament;
  3. majority voting should be extended to all legislative decisions, the budget, the amendments to the new Treaty/Constitution;
  4. foreign, security and defence policy should be exclusive competence of the Federation.

If the Convention wants to make a difference and meet the challenges ahead, particularly the imminent enlargement, it must be ambitious.

The Convention must avoid being held hostage by those representatives that oppose the concept of federalism.

It should therefore proceed to elaborate and approve a draft Constitution, even if supported only by a broad majority of its members.

The Convention should then propose to the Heads of State and Government a democratic procedure for the ratification of such a Constitution: those Countries which for the moment are not yet willing to join a federation should not be allowed to prevent the others from doing so.

The Convention faces a choice.
If it is courageous, it will command the respect of the European citizens.

But if it is weak, it will be remembered - if it is remembered at all - only for abandoning its responsibilities and turning its back on the people of Europe.

UNION OF EUROPEAN FEDERALISTS
YOUNG EUROPEAN FEDERALISTS

In other news:

Leinen: "The Union of European Federalists (UEF) will push for a federal Europe and against a Europe of Nation States." (November 29th 2001)

Giscard d'Estaing: "Le Traité de Nice est un mauvais compromis pour la France et pour l'Europe!"

Sofri: "Israele nella UE, per favorire la pace in MO. (In Italian)"
   


Temperatures in Europe

 Hamilton:
"To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages"
The Federalist, 1788

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