“Only a more federal Europe can cope with these challenges, ensuring the respect of our fundamental values and rights.(…) To this end, we support the creation of a renewed cross-partisan and inter-institutional pro-European coalition encompassing the most committed Member States in the European Council, the pro-European majority in the European and National Parliaments, the European Commission, and regional and local institutions, over and above the particular inertias of each institution, and the pro-European organized civil society. We call on them all to mobilize locally, nationally, and transnationally to support these requests for a more sovereign and democratic Union.”
This text is based on the declaration adopted by the relaunched Action Committee for the United States of Europe, 18 October 2025, Jean Monnet House, Houjarray/ Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France
Independent from whom? The USA? Then let’s not copy the American declaration of independence. Without going down conspiracy lane there is nothing above the EU. There is no need for independence.
There is a need for original thought. We want European Facebook, AWS, search engine, AI, StarLink, electric cars - all after the US has shown us that it is useful. If we copy the US, we will also copy the current dismantling. If we want independence, we should learn to think independently first.
I don‘t want European Facebook, AI or StarLink. I want something better and more democratic than any of those things.
European Facebook AI and Starlink would be better because it observes European regulation.
Of course, I’m also having an allergic reaction to this title. and happy to see already 2 allergic comments apart from my own idea.
This was basically the scope of EL Pais, probably beacuse of recent developments.
The original declaration and the term United States of Europe was used by the founder of Europe Jean Monnet and coined by Victor Hugo in the mid 19th century or so. I’ve read somewhere that a Polish guy has used it even earlier.
OK at least we agree on that. 😋
Haha, oh absolutely.
Added; I just found a term which may describe our pov: Functional Federalisation.
FYI @buffalox : There appears to be a strong discussion about the question whether European Union is actually federation.
In my view, but that’s just a POV, it’s a form of (loose) federation because memberstates cede power to a supranational entity ( The EU). On the other hand memberstates still hold lots of Souverignity and self Governing power, and that would be an argument against calling it a federation in a classic sense
Anyway to avoid any prejudice I personally use the term "The European Project" .Whatever it is, there is nothing like it anywhere in the world.
Which as it is we only do marginally and only on things we have specifically agreed to. This was one of the key arguments that was the reason Denmark couldn’t join the Maastricht-treaty that ended ECC and formed EU in 1991, and instead had the Edinburgh-agreement in 1992.
The exceptions Denmark achieved are basically irrelevant to the functioning of Denmark in EU. For instance we have our own currency, but the Danish Crown is tied to the Euro anyway. So the difference to having the Euro is academic.
EU regulation is written into law by each separate country, and upheld for the country by the country. EU is NOT a federation because it doesn’t have neither a central government or a central set of laws. There is no central force controlled by EU of any kind, that will enter your country to do anything. Either Police, or veterinary, or military intelligence or anything.
I hear politicians use that term too, and I 100% condone that description, because it definitely is a project, and a very significant one.
Exactly, and we shouldn’t devolve it to some ancient structure that doesn’t work.