Home Year XXXII, Number 1, March 2019

Oil and International Currency

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    Alfonso Iozzo and Antonio Mosconi

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    A. Iozzo: President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism and Vice President of Robert Triffin International.

    A. Mosconi: Former President of the Einstein Center for International Studies. Research Department, Robert Triffin International

 

Between Authoritarianism and Identity-stressing Sovereignism: “Illiberal Democracy” as a Model

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    Giampiero Bordino

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    Professor in Contemporary History and Political Analyst. President of the Einstein Center for International Studies

In Western history, democracy as a political system arises from the root of the liberal revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the English, American and French ones, through the overcoming of the wealth-based and oligarchic limits of political rights, above all the electoral ones, and through a growing popular participation in political life.

 

Carbon Tax: Worthy of a Nobel Prize

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    Alberto Majocchi

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    Professor Emeritus of Public Finance at the University of Pavia, Vice President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Torino, Italy

On 6 October, ahead of the Climate Change Conference to be held in Katowice in December, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) approved a Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C which reiterates the negative effects already seen following the 1°C increase in the planet’s temperature, with extreme weather events, rising sea levels and shrinking ice caps.

 

How can Commonwealth Nations Prevent Radicalisation?

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    Keith Best

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    Secretary of WFM, Chair & Chief Executive of the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust and Former Chair Executive Committee WFM-IGP

Some of you may have seen a documentary about a young man with a father who was a first generation Pakistani who worked so hard in Derby that he created a string of kebab restaurants and was well respected. His good fortune enabled his son to go to public school for a short term, and when he won a place from his school to go to university in London...

 

Monetary Aspects of the African Free Continental Trade Area

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    Elena Flor

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    Secretary General, Robert Triffin International

Preface

The 2006 financial crisis forced international financial institutions to become stronger, first and foremost, the International Monetary Fund, which doubled quotas from 238 to 477 billion SDRs and redistributed them to emerging countries: the first ten IMF quota holders, in addition to China, also include India, Russia and Brazil.

 

The State of the Nation: Conceptual Challenges to the Republican Nation State

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    Alon Helled

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    PhD candidate, Universities of Turin and Florence. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Gaza Crisis: a Cooperative Way Forward

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    Rene Wadlow

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    President, Association of World Citizens

COP24 on Climate Change: Delay after Delay, Time Is Running out Dangerously

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    Roberto Palea

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    Member and former President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism

 

UN Reform without Amending the Charter: the Case of the “UN Development System”

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    Andrea Cofelice

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    Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Torino, Italy

 

The Global Compact for Migration Signed in Marrakech

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    Grazia Borgna

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    Former Director of the Einstein Center for International Studies, Torino, Italy

 

Antonio Megalizzi and the Silicon Valley of Politics

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    Michele Ballerin

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    Former Vice-Secretary of UEF Italy

In Memory of Joseph Schwartzberg

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For a Stronger, More United Europe*

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    Josep Borrell

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    Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, and Member of the Union of European Federalists of Spain (UEF-Spain)

Pro-European politicians in every country need to convince their citizens that no nation on its own can have an impact on the world’s problems. More democratic control over decisions is vital.

Wake up, Europe!*

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    Sandro Gozi

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    President of the UEF

Our Europe is, again, at a turning point. It has been so several times in the past. But the point in which we are now is a particularly important one. This time is different. Very different.

 

The Global Dimension of Europe

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    Fernando Iglesias

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    President of the WFM, Director of the Spinelli Chair in Buenos Aires, member of the Argentinian Parliament.

I read with special attention the important paper by Marco Piantini about the future of the European Union, and the different opinions that have rightly come up.

 

The Battle Plan for a Federal Europe. The ‘I Choose Europe’ Campaign

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    Ophélie Omnes

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    Directly elected member of the Federal Committee of the UEF and President of UEF-France.

During their last Congress in Vienna in November 2018, the European federalists (UEF) adopted the format of their campaign for the next European elections in May 2019.

The Creation of the Latin American Criminal Court Receives Broad Regional Support

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    Camila López Badra

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    Executive Director of Democracia Global and Coordinator of the COPLA Campaign

Parliamentary Speakers Summit in the Context of the G-20

  • Federalist Action

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    Fernando Iglesias

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    President of the WFM, Director of the Spinelli Chair in Buenos Aires, member of the Argentinian Parliament.

A World Citizens Initiative. The Case for a Global Participatory Democracy

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    MIchele Fiorillo

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    Co-founder of the campaign We Europeans. He has conceived the idea of a UN World Citizens Initiative. Former member of WFM Council and UEF-Italy Central Committee

Time is high for a reform of the United Nations, and many proposals are under discussion in the run-up to its 75th anniversary, which will be celebrated on October 2020.

Three Important Advancements in the Campaign for a UNPA

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    Andreas Bummel

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    Founder of Democracy without Borders and Coordinator of the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly (CUNPA)

The European Project in Stefan Zweig's Thought

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    Paolo Ponzano

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    Professor of European Governance at the European College of Parma, Italy.Senior Fellow of the Schuman Centre of EUI

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The Destiny of Europe. A Sensation of Déjà Vu

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    Roger Vancampenhout

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    Member of the UEF Group Europe

Ivan Krastev
After Europe

The University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2017

 

Ivan Krastev, a Bulgarian political scientist, specializing in the post-Soviet world and European issues, has the voice of a convinced European from Central Europe. He founded and runs the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia.

 

Eighty Years of Federalist Commitment in Europe

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    Michel Theys

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    Editorialist of the daily bulletin Agence Europe

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