Wanted: A Federalist Debate
The Recovery Package makes the perfect case for eurofederalism, writes Volt Europa Board Member Joel Boehme, but the debate is lacking. We need pan-European politics,…
Unaccountable?
By Stuart Clark | MAYBE UNACCOUNTABLE IS NOT CORRECT, PERHAPS NOT HELD TO ACCOUNT IS MORE ACCURATE. That is because all three countries are democracies,…
The perverse impact of operating with treaties
By Leo Klinkers | EU politicians don’t know the difference between an undemocratic intergovernmental treaty and a democratic federal constitution. The lack of knowledge is…
Episodes of flaring up European unity in the context of Federalism
Part 1, The Federalist Papers, January 2017 by Leo Klinkers | Preliminary remark Now that Germany is chairing the EU again since 1 July 2020,…
Fighting the identity crisis of federalism in Europe
A reexamination of basic federalist elements to prevent the EU collapsing by Leo Klinkers | Introduction The European Union wants to give a EUR 750…
Is the EU’s 750 Billion Recovery Fund a ‘Hamiltonian moment’?
by Leo Klinkers | The Federal Alliance of European Federalists (F.A.E.F.) was founded to develop more strength for the creation of the United States of…
To err is human but to persevere in error is diabolical
Observations on the Conference on the Future of Europe 2020-2022 by Leo Klinkers | Introduction President Macron’s call (March 2019) for a Conference on the…
This pandemic has opened our eyes to the precariousness of life
By Stuart Clark | WHAT COVID-19 DID THAT GLOBAL WARMING HAD FAILED TO DO. The initial shock of how serious this Pandemic could be, has…
The Curse Of Intergovernmentalist System Errors
by Leo Klinkers | In my article Anarchy + Anarchy = Strong Man in Europe-Today Magazine of 8 April, 2020 I mentioned six system errors…
Anarchy + Anarchy = Strong Man
by Leo Klinkers | This title is provocative. If you don’t like it, you’d better start reading something else. Go wait until black shirts kick…