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Latest addition : 18 August.

  • A political earthquake that will send shivers down London's spine

    Scottish Nationalists win by-election and give Brown another headache.

    Monday 18 August 2008 by  Toni Giugliano , 1 comment
    On July 24, the Scottish National Party (SNP) has pulled off a historic by election victory in Glasgow East – the Labour heartland - leaving Gordon Brown and the Labour Party in complete disarray. The third safest Labour seat in Scotland and one of the safest in Britain has said NO to Brown’s (...) Continue

  • Dr. Radovan Karadzic: The Triumph of Death Against Life

    Friday 1 August 2008 by  René Wadlow , 0 comment
    Radovan Karadzic is a psychiatrist; his wife Ljiljan Zelem-Karadzic is a psychiatrist; their daughter Sonja is a psychiatrist. Had Yugoslavia continued united, Karadzic probably would have headed a private clinic for wealthy neurotics to whom he would have read his poems in the evening. Or he (...) Continue

  • President of Sudan accused of genocide by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

    Tuesday 29 July 2008 by  Michela Costa , 0 comment italiano
    On the 14th of July the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed an application accusing Omar Hassan Ahmad al Bashir - current president of Sudan – of being criminally responsible for ordering a campaign of genocide directed against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa (...) Continue

  • Nicolas Sarkozy at the European Parliament: the beginning of the French Presidency

    Thursday 17 July 2008 by  Nicolas Jean, Translated by Elena Montani , 0 comment français
    Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Council of the European Union for the next 6 months, presented this Thursday 10 July the objectives of the French Presidency to the members of the European Parliament, gathered in plenary session in Strasbourg. Two strong ideas guided Mr Sarkozy’s speech: (...) Continue

  • Bronislaw Geremek's death saddens European family

    Member of the European Parliament Bronislaw Geremek killed in a car accident on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 in western Poland.

    Tuesday 15 July 2008 by  Benoît Courtin, Translated by Peter Matjašič , 0 comment français - italiano
    By listening to this grand man speak one didn’t have so much the impression of being in front of a Pole but rather to be in the company of a true European. This affiliation to the general European interest which characterised him was one of the things that made him a likely candidate to occupy (...) Continue

  • Council finds no solution: time for a two speed Europe?

    An alternative solution to the institutional deadlock of the European Union

    Tuesday 24 June 2008 by  Toni Giugliano , 3 comments français
    56% of the Irish population (or 1% of the European population) have rejected the Lisbon Treaty, taking the European Union back to yet another scene of political crisis and uncertainty. Many will be wondering how much longer this limbo is set to last, while others will start questioning whether (...) Continue

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News items

  • 18 March – European youth against the Belarus dictatorship!
    On the night of 18th-19th of March 2008 JEF (Young European Federalists) will organise a co-ordinated pan-European action in different cities across the continent to show support to the suppressed civil society and opposition movement in Belarus. JOIN US!
    Belarus Action 2008
  • 1 January – EURO of 15
    Today Cyprus and Malta have given up their respective national currencies to adopt the Euro thus enlarging the Eurozone to 15 members.
    Read more about it here.
  • December 2007 – ALL THE BEST IN 2008!
    Dear readers! I would like to thank you all for keeping up with our online magazine, browsing through our articles and getting involved in the forum debates. For the coming year I wish you many happy and memorable moments and hope to see you back on our site soon. Yours, Peter Matjašič, Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu
  • December 2007 – Schengen Enlargment - Europe United!
    The EU’s borderless zone expanded to nine new member countries - Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, which all joined the EU back in May 2004 - at midnight on Friday (21 December) in its biggest enlargement so far. Land and sea border checks between them and the other Schengen countries are now abolished, while air borders are set to follow on 30 March 2008.
    Read more about it here.
  • December 2007 – I want my EU flag back!
    JEF-Europe organises a pan-European action today in more than 50 cities across Europe demaning our flag back to remind the European leaders, who are due to sign the Lisbon/Reform Treaty today in Brussels, of the missing EU symbols in the new treaty.
    Read more about it here.
  • December 2007 – Key climate summit opens in Bali
    Governments at a key UN climate summit will discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the current Kyoto Protocol targets expire in 2012.
    Read more about it here.

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