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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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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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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Vidéo. N. Gnesotto. L’Europe : changer ou périr ?
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“De la réponse au Corona Virus dépendra le futur de l’Europe”
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L’UE face au miroir, entre défis internes et externes – interview avec Enrico Letta
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Il faut “retrouver une courbe des taux qui permet de ‘pricer’ l’avenir”
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Pascal Lamy at Le Monde : « Il faut développer les biens publics européens »
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Eulalia Rubio on European economic governance on RTVE
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Mario Draghi on the single market and the eurozone : preaching in the desert
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Mario Draghi : “The most important area where Europe can contribute positively to growth remains the single market.”
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Mario Draghi calls for euro area fiscal instrument to fight crises.
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Pascal Lamy in Le nouvel Economiste : “L’Europe doit s’attaquer de front au défi anthro-politique”
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Enrico Letta in Forces Magazine: “Pour une Europe renouvelée”
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Enrico Letta in Challenges about the state of the European Union
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Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Géopolis
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Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Financial Times
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Pascal Lamy on Le Parisien Magazine: “Faut-il sauver la peau de l’euro ?”
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Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Deutsche Welle
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Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Les Echos
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Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Il Sole 24 Ore
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Our report “Repair and prepare: growth and the euro after Brexit” in Reuters
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