Brief
Federal Leap or Political Unions?
The on-going evolution of the euro zone crisis has elicited healthy calls for a boost to European integration which often crystallise around the concept of a “federal leap”. Yves Bertoncini tries to clarify the terms of this debate, underlining the EU is already a “Federation of Nation States” and inviting to address three key issues: the share out of competences, the European government and democracy within the EU.
Competences, government, democracy: those are the three main issues in a European “roadmap” which must not be purely economic and social, but must also be political and institutional – and they are also the ingredients of the political jolts, as daring as it is reasonable, which the EU so sorely needs.
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PUBLICATIONS
The Euro as seen by citizens who do not yet have it
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The reform of the EMU: what social dimension?
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Es ist Zeit
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MÉDIAS
MEDIAS
En Europe, le marché unique fête ses 30 ans, entre satisfaction et désillusion
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Les grandes voix européennes: Jacques Delors, l’architecte de l’intégration européenne
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Nationalisme contre fédéralisme : quand les peuples font une lecture divergente de l’idéal européen
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ÉVÉNEMENTS
EVENTS
Euroquestions | Will the invasion of Ukraine strengthen or weaken the EU integration process?
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Differentiated Integration and the Future of Europe: Promises, Pitfalls, Pathways
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Strasbourg, 17th September 2019 – Democracy and the Peace Building process
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San Sebastian, 12th September 2019 – The process of the UK withdrawing from the EU
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Paris, 6 June 2019 – Quelles relations entre la France et les pays de Visegrád ?
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Saint-Prix, 24 May 2019 – Discover the European Union
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Dijon, 17 May 2019 – The European project against populism and the illiberal temptation
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Paris, 13 May 2019 – Europe of culture
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Berlin, 19 September 2018 – Making Europe’s Economic Union Work
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Luxembourg, 20 June 2018 – The reform of the EMU: which social dimension?
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Paris, 20 June 2018 – Future Europe
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Paris, 13 June 2018 – Whither European integration – Addressing EU internal and external challenges
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Montreal, 11 June 2018 – Europe at the Crossroads
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Geneva, 1st June 2018 – The European Union future: challenges and prospects
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Paris, 18 May 2018 – One Vision: Awaken the European spirit
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Brussels, 17 May 2018 – Where is spectrum management headed in 2025-35?
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Paris, 9 May 2018 – Europe Day at school
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Brussels, 20 April 2018 – White Paper on the Future of Europe
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Angers, 29 March 2018 – From the Treaty of Rome to today
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Nicosia, 16 March 2018 – The political landscape of EMU reform
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Sofia, 9 March 2018 – The future of the EU budget
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Athens, 8 February 2018 – Athens’ days: Greece, paths for hope
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Bruxelles, 25 January 2018 – Academy study trip to Brussels
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