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The FED Watch is a forum for writing short articles or simply making postings in reaction to what is happening in the world today. Its aim is to monitor anti-federalist and egoistic state behaviour just like the Human Rights Watch is monitoring violations of human rights. Furthermore it explores what kind of issues in European and world politics are relevant to federalism and also in what is our critique of these issues. Have your say in the FED watch today!

Latest addition : 18 October 2008.

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European flag, motto and anthem have been added to the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament

Saturday 18 October 2008, by Florent Banfi français - italiano

During its session of October 8, the European Parliament has recognized the motto, anthem and flag to be European symbols. This vote occurs while the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty has faced a negative ballot in Ireland and no solution has been found until now. The Treaty, which included (...) Continue
Saturday 16 February 2008, by Translated by Peter Matjašič, Fabien Cazenave , 5 comments français

The Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik raised a scoop: the USA addressed a document to Slovenia who currently chairs the Council of the European Union… to give it instructions on how it should manage the European Union during the first six months of 2008. We thus give a red card to the American (...) Continue
The Charter represents our European values and we have to fight for it

Saturday 22 December 2007, by Arielle Rouby français

The solemn declaration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights came on the eve of the signing of the Lisbon Treaty, which carries a cross-reference to the full text of the Charter, laying out the range of civil, political economic and social rights of all EU residents. The ceremony unfortunately (...) Continue
Wednesday 19 December 2007, by Peter Matjašič

The European Union (EU) plans to establish a “Council of the Wise,” based on a suggestion by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. This promises to be a great way of making Europe more transparent and equipped for the challenges of the 21st century by using methods of the past. Instead European (...) Continue
Putin’s United Russia marks a landslide victory

Tuesday 4 December 2007, by Åsa Gunvén

The Duma elections are over – an excellent performance in state managed democracy with Putin as the big theatre director. The election that took place last Sunday, are criticized sharply by OSCE and the results confirm Russia as a renewed one-party state. In Sunday’s Parliamentary elections in (...) Continue
After the last European Council…

Sunday 8 July 2007, by Translated by Peter Matjašič, Lionel Luttenbacher français

The last EU summit of 21-22 June put the perversity of the intergovernmental system forward once more. One speaks to us about a great success, of a great day for Europe, of one of the most important EU summits in recent years. But the question that should be raised is the following: was it a (...) Continue

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December 2008 – Happy Birthday Eurobarometer !
During 2 days, high profile speakers had the opportunity to exchange with various representatives of the civil society, of students… about the evolution and the usage of the Eurobarometer surveys. Speakers like Margot Wallström, Jean Pierre Jouyet, Claes de Vreese, Enrique Baron Crespo, Jacques Santer, had intensive exchanges on the Friday and on the Saturday the “youth” had the chance to “take the floor”. I had the opportunity to represent JEF in these exchanges with some students from sciences-po and also other speakers. It was a very nice exchange of views and the opportunity to speak about what youth expects from the EU. I introduced the JEF manifesto which got a positive welcome and we also talked a lot about the programme Europe at school and the necessity to better inform and teach young people about European issues. You can find more information about the programme of the conference and soon its results on the => webpage <=.
March 2008 – 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
January 2008 – 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.