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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 prevented, and
not the reverse.
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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
elections 2009
Why
parties should nominate candidates for president of the Commission
An enquiry comes in: why should political
parties nominate candidates for president of the European Commission
in the elections next summer. Here are three reasons.
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about European foreign policy |
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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.
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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. More
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