European Letters

1) The importance of Europe and the need for a foreign and defence policy. 2) The Convention. 3) The majority rule. 4) An urgent European state. 5) The federal group. 6) The oppositions. 7) The alternative and a complicated choice. 7) The federal covenant. 8) What’s inside the federal covenant.

Despite the american success in the Iraq War, in addition to the US’s allies uniting again, the only progressive framework for the international stage which would guarantee stability and actual developmente for every region in the planet, cannot but be based on multipolarism and the emergence of a European pole which would be impossible if we don’t launch a Euopean federal State.

Europe is facing a crucial phase in its history requiring rapid and radical decisions, including on sovereignty which cannot be dealt with and solved in the current framework made up by 25 member states, neither can it be solved in any group involving the UK.

At the Brussels Convention we’ll have to choose between two intergovernmental models, this is what’s at stake: the so-called community method on the one hand, a partially disguised one advocated by small Member States, and on the other hand a more explicit model backed by the larger States. A dispute that undermines cohesion among the orignal group of States, the only ones that can bring about Europe’s unification.

Competition rules preventing state aids and the deflationary policies imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact are hindering development, and they prove disastrous during a recession. It’s also true that violating those rules would provoke a crisis for both the euro and the Union itself. The real issue here is that we must create a true european government with a true european industrial policy.

Having a single currency alongside with a european budgetary policy, irrespective of Member States, implies the creation of a truly federal State made possible by an initially small group of States.

At the Convention, the so-called federalist coalition is still trapped into the community method without challenging the predominant role played by the Member States in the current EU framework. Unlike this method, the federalist one advocates a new State-based decision-making system which is directly connected to our citizens.

After Laeken’s decision of launching a Convention, governments aren’t but trying to buy time. The community method and its intermediate objectives is now outdated. Only the original founding States can relaunch the integration process as they hold a greater degree of european awareness.

As a result of its latest stances, Italy is facing the risk of isolation in Europe as well as undermining the integration proces’s prospects of advancement that can longer be supported by cohesion among the founding States.

Before the growing weakness of the american egemony, in addition to Russia and China’s rise, we must get back to talking about sovereignty and of a European State.

The Enlargement is proving to be a threat to a european cohesion which is growing weaker. To relaunch the political Union, we need a concrete project by the six foundermembers States

The European integration process reached its final stage and there’s just one last step we have to take which consists in the creation of a federal State. Should the six foundermembers countries be unable to take the lead and resolve the stalemate, the enlargment could mark the end of the political Union.