It was probably Duncan Sandys, a British conservative, Churchill’s son-in-law, who had been given the task to develop the European Movement in Great Britain, who proposed for the first time the flag with a big E as the symbol of European unity. The irony of history made it so that the inventor (...) Continue
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
Stable structures benefit from crisis whilst unstable ones tend to be destroyed by them. The EU was born from a big crisis named 2nd World War and has been forged crisis by crisis. Following the saying “what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger” I have no doubt that the EU will come out (...) Continue
Without the support of the European citizenry, the President of the European Commission lacks the legitimacy necessary to make the European project credible.
The President of the European Commission is today nominated by the European Council to lead what is likely to one day become the executive branch of the European Union. Still, such an important position is far removed from citizens. They don’t see what is the role of this President who they have (...) Continue
Taurillon, the webzine on European affairs of the Young European Federalists (JEF), has exceeded the 1,000,000 visitor mark. This symbolic threshold is a testament of the success of the site, run by volunteers from all over Europe.
Launched by JEF-France following the failed French referendum (...) Continue
Resolution adopted during the Federal Committee of Biel in March 2008.
JEF-Europe adopted a resolution on the evolution of the United Nations (UN) and the role of the European Union (EU) in this process.
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Recalling that the EU is by definition called upon to be a driving force in the process of UN reform and that the 2003 European Security Strategy (...) Continue
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!
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Yours, Peter Matjašič, Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu
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.
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.