European Letters

The problem with the European Constitution isn’t just writing a new document, but founding a new power. In other words, it’s about founding a new federal and sovereign State in an environment which includes several sovereign States.

Although the discussion on the most important decisions takes place at a European level, interests are organized at a national level. This is due to the fact that we don’t have a real european government, we only have a Council made up by sovereign States whose main decisions are subject to no democratic control whatsoever, and they fall prey to the vetoes blackmail.

The key to solving the tragic Yugoslav incident is in Europe’s hands, provided that the Union’s national leaders understand that only by quickly creating a federal Union can they allow us to rapidly get out of a situation which brought once again war in he heart of Europe.

The Euopean Union is in need of an expansionary economic policy , and investments in european technological innovation and infrastructures. This can only be done through a federal Constitutions, and clearly not with the Union’s current financial resources that add up to the contradictory demands by the national governments.

All pro-europeans share the inability to acknowledge that if the Union is to overcome all the contradictions it is trapped into, it must make that revultionary leap forward and transfer sovereignty from national States to the federal States.

The challenge ahead is to develop an employment policy which will create jobs by generating actual wealth, instead of causing a waste of resources.

The EU could play a pivotal role in leading the reaction to finance’s excessive power, and lead to the establishment of a strong, responsible leadership, instead of taking us to protectionism. Of course, Europe as it is today cannot play such a role.

After the monetary union and the enlargement perspective the reform of the european institutions can no longer be delayed, but Europe which as able to act is incompatible with national sovereignty. Not only is the intergovernmental ineffective, basically, it’s undemocratic.

The time has come to face the issue of sovereignty in a radical way. For a long time now the European States have been unable to make their citizens feel like playing a leading role in the world stage, whereas this isn’t yet possible as the Union isn’t a foreign policy player.

The European governments have shown that they could find the strenght and the consensus needed to pursue budget policies in line with the euro’s objectives. However, without a deep change in the way we build and express consensus in Europe, it will not be possible to strengthen the monetary Union and make it irreversible.

The European Union is at a hisrtoric crossroads. If we are to successfully face it, the small institutional adjustments that we now have aren’t enoguh. What the EU needs is a strong power based on democratic consensus, in the context of a federal institutional framework inspired by the subsidiarity principle. It’s because they want to achieve this goal that the federalists have launched a permanent Campaing at a European scale. By the means of this letter they will attempt to give a voice, to european citizens who have been left out of the European construction process, and have the european political establishment listen to it.