[FR] The United States of Europe

In the debate sparked by the French and Dutch referendums, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has made a concise and effective contribution on the future of the EU. He is committed to a political revival, with a federalist perspective, and proposes that Europe embark on this path. Choosing this objective would suggest three major reforms: the allocation of new powers, the revision of the EU’s financing arrangements and the creation of new institutions. Achieving this would mean accepting the creation of a pioneering group, a political core including the members of the Eurogroup, the ‘United States of Europe’ and, around it, a second circle organised along confederal lines, made up of those states not wishing to go further, the ‘Organisation of European States’.