European Letters

After Laeken’s decision of launching a Convention, governments aren’t but trying to buy time. The community method and its intermediate objectives is now outdated. Only the original founding States can relaunch the integration process as they hold a greater degree of european awareness.

As a result of its latest stances, Italy is facing the risk of isolation in Europe as well as undermining the integration proces’s prospects of advancement that can longer be supported by cohesion among the founding States.

Before the growing weakness of the american egemony, in addition to Russia and China’s rise, we must get back to talking about sovereignty and of a European State.

The Enlargement is proving to be a threat to a european cohesion which is growing weaker. To relaunch the political Union, we need a concrete project by the six foundermembers States

The European integration process reached its final stage and there’s just one last step we have to take which consists in the creation of a federal State. Should the six foundermembers countries be unable to take the lead and resolve the stalemate, the enlargment could mark the end of the political Union.

Following the creation of the european currency, the creation of a federal Union is the ultimate step we must take. But the prospect of losing national sovereignty is leaving the government representatives minds in haze, and it’s crippling their will. It would be dangerous to opt for an enlargment just to buy some time.

There can be no solution to the institutional issues that were addressed in Nice in the EU’s current political and institutional framework. On the contrary, they can only be resolved by treating them as elements of a federal constitution in the context of a comprehensive reform of the Union.

The speech given by Fischer on the 12th of May, as well as the one which was given by Chirac on the 27th of June, have brought the crucial issues related to the european unification process to the public opinion’s attention. Such issues can be divided into three chapters: I) The nature of the constituent process and its final stage, II) The general principles of the European Constitution, III) The institutions and the distrubution of competences.

The reason why the two speeches are revolutionary is beacause they clearly enunciate that the Union would inevitably break up, if we choose to enlarge it without a radical institutional reform; moreover, they indicate that this reform can only be implemented in within the framework of a small group of countries, starting from the original foundermembers States.

The Council has decided that the representatives of both the European institutions and the national Parliaments will work on a European Charter of fundamental rights. However, Europe doesn’t need an additional declaration, it needs to create a federal power which will allow for the realization of those rights instead by promoting the citizens dignity, security, and well-being.

The Union’s enlargement is unavoidable, but a 27 or 28 Member States Europe, with the current institutional framework would be come absolutely ungovernable if we don’t discard the intergovernmental method and then create a federal group.

The European unification process is facing an impasse and the final choice of a european federation will be the only way out of it. Yet, governments don’t want to give up the dogma of national sovereignty and the intergovernmental method. Moreover, proposals such as modifying article 48 and the majority vote will only serve the interest of pro-sovereignty movements.