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At the heart of the British attitude to Europe is a
misconception. We know that our own political system is highly centralised, and
we often assume that any European system must inevitably go the same way.
But this is not the case. If the European Union continues
to develop in a federalist direction, democracy will be strengthened and over-centralisation
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The
Federal Union manifesto
For
an effective and more democratic European Union
The
Federal Union manifesto is designed to mobilize committed Europeans to campaign
for an effective and more democratic European Union and one that exercises its
full potential in world affairs. More
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about the Federal Union manifesto |
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European
foreign policy
Re-thinking
NATO - a European declaration of independence
If
9/11 "changed everything" for Americans, then, some 12 years earlier,
the end of the Berlin Wall had "changed everything" for Europeans. For,
with the Soviet threat removed, the cold war pattern of the European-American
relationship was bound, sooner or later, to be re-assessed, and altered. More
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about European foreign policy |
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Enlargement
of the EU
Can Turkey
join the EU?
It is not possible to separate the
political development of the European Union from political developments elsewhere
in the world. If we pretend that building the EU is simply the recreation of the
features of a national state at the European level, we will not solve the problems
of conflict between states. We will merely transplant them to larger, more heavily
armed states. More
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about enlargement of the EU |
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Charter
of Fundamental Rights
EU
citizenship in an inter-cultural union
All these new states and regions,
while emphasizing their own separate identities and in several cases their new
nationality, see their future as being within the European Union and voluntarily
accept the merging of sovereignty in certain key areas, including aspects of citizenship.
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