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Saturday 11 October 2008, by Peter Claeys

The financial crisis that started about one year ago has taken some time to spread, both across the financial industry and across the globe. The isolated problems in some US and UK banks have over the last weeks spread out. It first accelerated as the banking industry in the US melt down (...) Continue
Saturday 6 September 2008

Interview with Dr. Yves LECOCQ, Secretary General of FACE, the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Biodiversity in the EU. The New Federalist: Dr. LECOCQ, you are following European conservation and hunting politics since 1983. Could you briefly tell the readers some facts about your (...) Continue
Thursday 4 September 2008, by Alfonso Iozzo

Globalization has brought about a radical change in the balance of power in the world and in particular it has broken down the “bronze law” that gave 20 percent of world population the use of 80 percent of world resources. Such changes are comparable to the events of the industrial revolution (...) Continue
Friday 22 August 2008, by Fabien Cazenave français

William Horsley, the representative of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) Media Freedom, answers to some questions regarding the research on the freedom of press. Le Taurillon : Could you explain the reasons and the context of the survey? William Hortsley : The spur which drove the (...) Continue
Presentation of the Report published by the Association of European Journalists

Saturday 16 August 2008, by William Hortsley français

Members of the Association of European Journalists make up a network of journalists across Europe who monitor and assess violations of legitimate freedom of the media. In this Update to our original Survey, Goodbye to Freedom? (November 2007), we present further research from 15 countries which (...) Continue
Friday 11 July 2008, by Massimo Contri italiano - français

In politics there seems to exist a strange natural law: he who does his duty is challenged, but whomsoever diverges from their expected duty is increasingly exalted. The case of the European Central Bank is a good example of this rule in practice. Europe’s Scapegoat The ECB statute proclaims (...) Continue

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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.