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Sovereign states
Letter to The Times, 1 April 2002 Sir, Mr Robin Howard (letter, March 26) is mistaken in his history of the United States. At the time of the Philadelphia Convention, […]
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Migration – an international phenomenon lacking a global response
An axiom of world federalism is that decisions should be made locally, as close as possible to the people, and reserved upwards to a higher authority only if that is […]
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A federalist plan for the constitution
Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 2, 19 March 2002 Dear Members of the Convention, in the debate that, across Europe, has accompanied the first session of […]
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Europe’s Constitutional Convention and the euro
By Brendan Donnelly The Laeken European Council last December set up a “Constitutional Convention” under the chairmanship of the former French President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. This Convention, bringing together representatives […]
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Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention
Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 1, 28 February 2002 Dear Members of the Convention, For the first time in European history elected parliamentarians and not national […]
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Campaign briefing: The European Constitutional Convention
The launch of the European Constitutional Convention on 28 February 2002 has started an important new phase in the development of the European Union. For the first time, debate about […]
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Being a citizen of Europe
By Hugo Young I did not speak from a fully coherent text, and probably did not say everything in these extended notes. But you are welcome to them, even though […]
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Citizens in Europe, citizens of Europe
“Democracy requires not only the people. You can create the apparatus of a state at European level, with a common frontier, a single immigration policy, a common foreign and defence […]
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Appeal to the Convention – for a European federal constitution
UEF Bureau, Brussels, 24 February 2002 Freedom, security, peace and welfare are under threat both in Europe and throughout the world. The international order built after the 2nd World War is […]
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The prototype for the Convention? The conference of parliaments held in Rome before the Maastricht IGC
By Richard Corbett MEP Only once before has an IGC been prepared by a body meeting in public and whose composition included members of national parliaments and the European Parliament. […]