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Sunday 28 December 2008 français

The Republican candidate to the US presidency put forward the proposal to create a League of democracies. How can this idea be interpreted ? Whilst reading Richard Laming’s blog for a Federal Union, section britannique de l’UEF, I find out about the republican candidate John McCain’s idea of a (...) Continue
An Unused but not Forgotten Standard of World Law

Tuesday 9 December 2008, by René Wadlow

Genocide is the most extreme consequence of racial discrimination and ethnic hatred. Genocide has as its aim the destruction, wholly or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such. The term was proposed by the legal scholar Raphael Lemkin, drawing on the Greek genos (...) Continue
Saturday 29 November 2008, by Dimitris Mathoudiakis , 2 comments

It is commonly argued that politics nowadays has moved from the level of ideology to the level of personality. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the final prevalence of liberal societal structures around the globe had, admittedly, extraordinary consequences for the whole of Europe. The (...) Continue
Saturday 15 November 2008, by Union des Fédéralistes Européens

In the light of this weekend’s G20 summit, Andrew Duff MEP, President of the Union of European Federalists, calls for the creation of a new international monetary system on the basis of a world standard. In a statement on Thursday, Duff says: The full scale of the financial and economic crisis (...) Continue
Wednesday 5 November 2008, by René Wadlow

At the Palais des Nations — the UN’s European headquarters— on 15 October 2008, there was an uneven start to negotiations among Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian negotiators. The Russian representatives arrived 50 minutes late unsure if the representatives of Abkhazia and South (...) Continue
Monday 27 October 2008, by JEF-Europe

JEF Europe condemns the position taken by the governments of some Member States of the European Union, including Italy and Poland, on the reduction of the CO2 emissions and the energy consumption as well as the promotion of renewable sources of energy by 2020 (20-20-20). These positions aim to (...) 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.