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Monday 11 August 2008, by Domenico Moro

The proposal contained in this document provides for the creation of a European Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) by an avant-guard group of European countries, as a first step towards a European policy of security controlled by a European Federal government. It is founded on the contents of the (...) Continue
Friday 8 August 2008, by Domenico Moro

The proposal contained in this document provides for the creation of a European Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) by an avant-guard group of European countries, as a first step towards a European policy of security controlled by a European Federal government. It is founded on the contents of the (...) Continue
Saturday 26 July 2008, by Pauline Gessant, Translated by Elena Montani français

Interview with Mikael Latreille, President of the pro-European and pan-European party Europe United, who explains his view on the future of the European integration. 1) You are the President of “Europe United –The European Party”. Can you present your party and explain the reasons for its (...) Continue
Shortcut of a misgiving terminology

Wednesday 2 July 2008, by Translated by Elena Montani, Valéry-Xavier Lentz français

The majority of the newspapers, and even of the policies, speak regularly about a Presidency of the European Union, that France would hold during the second half of 2008. They also discuss – by anticipating the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty – the name of the future President. The problem (...) Continue
Monday 9 June 2008, by Elena Montani

Every day we are obliged to face the limits of representative democracy, which involves us in the management of the res publica only once every four or five years. The distance between citizens and institutions is growing every day, confidence in those who govern us drops, daily needs seem not (...) Continue
Saturday 31 May 2008, by Peter Claeys

The reelection of Silvio Berlusconi as Italian prime minister continues to be an anomaly in a democratic European Union. As one of the richest men in Europe, with huge industrial and media power bolstering him, there are simply too many conflicts of interests with public life. Yet, it seems (...) 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.