Year XXXIII, Number 1, March 2020
The EU and the Reconstruction of the International Order
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Lucio Levi
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Member of UEF Federal Committee, Former President of UEF Italy
While the Cold War had promoted the unification of Europe within the framework of the Atlantic Alliance and had broken the East-West agreement which paved the way to the construction of the UN and the Bretton Woods organizations, it prevented any progress towards world unification.
We Need More Europe, not Less. Farewell Remarks*
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Mario Draghi
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Former President of the ECB
This year marks two decades of monetary union, which is by any measure a momentous anniversary. Not so long ago, the euro area economy was scarred by a level of unemployment probably unseen since the Great Depression, and fundamental questions were being asked about whether the euro would survive.
2019: The Resilience and Strength of European Institutions
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Mario Telò
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Professor of International Relations at Université Libre de Bruxelles and LUISS of Rome.
One aspect that is not often mentioned since the European elections in May 2019, or since the appointments of the members of the new Commission in July and the formation of the new Commission in September, is that we are witnessing an obvious demonstration of the strength of the European institutions.
Identity Nationalism and Globalization. The Murderous and Suicidal Logic of “Them” and “Us”
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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
1989, as is well-known, is the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the cold war, and the beginning, at least in hopes, of a new phase of European and world history. But the walls, broadly understood as more or less armed barriers to the free movement of people, have since then, according to a study by the University of Quebec carried out in 2016, at least tripled, from 15 to 63 on all continents, Europe included, involving 67 states as a whole.
Peace and Harmony, Will They Ever Be Achieved?
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Visvanathan Muthukumaran
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Member of the Asian Youth Centre; Executive Committee Member, United Religions Initiative, South India-Sri Lanka Zone
Proposal for Legal Incentives for Transnationalisation of Political Parties
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Pierre Jouvenat
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Former UN/WTO senior official and active member of UEF-France
The sole purpose of this paper is to formulate a specific proposal on the voting system for European elections that is compatible with the long-term vision of emergence of transnational parties. It will only deal with legal incentives that are considered appropriate, taking into account the particular context of the EU, as recalled above.
Albert Thomas: The ILO Centenary
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Rene Wadlow
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President, Association of World Citizens
Inadequacy of the Dollar as a World Currency: an Anglo-American Reflection
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Antonio Mosconi
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Research Department, Robert Triffin International
The Celebration of Democracy in Sri Lanka
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James W. Arputharaj
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President of South Asian Federalists; Former EC member of WFM; Coordinator for India for the Campaign for UN Parliamentary Assembly; Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
Where else can you watch people coming outside their homes in the evening of the Election Day to wave at the vehicles carrying the ballot boxes?
African solutions to African problems: United Nations – Africa Partnership for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
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Andrea Cofelice
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Torino, Italy
Chapter VIII of the UN Charter represents the legal basis for the involvement of regional organizations in maintaining international peace and security, a task which is (or should be) the main purpose of the UN Security Council. However, its provisions, as well as many other provisions of the Charter, have been largely disregarded throughout the Cold War period.
A “Colossal Danger” for the World. Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
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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
Immanuel Wallerstein: Ah, We Were Once Both Young and Hopeful!
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Rene Wadlow
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President, Association of World Citizens
Immanuel Wallerstein (28 September 1930 - 31 August 2019) the political sociologist best known for his writings on the “world system” and I were friends in the mid-1950s. Perhaps not friends but at least both student activists in the world federalist – world citizen movement, especially in their international dimension.
Harris Wofford (1926 – 2019), a Planetary Patriot
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Tad Daley
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Director of Policy Analysis at Citizens for Global Solutions. Speechwriter, policy advisor, or coauthor for two Democratic members of the U.S. House and two more Democratic U.S. senators.
Pope Francis: “The Nations Must Participate in the Edification of the Common Good of Humanity”
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Mario Draghi and the EU’s Fiscal Capacity
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Alberto Majocchi
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Emeritus Professor of Finance at the University of Pavia and Vice President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism
There is now a broad consensus that if Europe is to move along the path to sustainable development, carbon pricing is needed which could both promote the global choice to limit fossil fuel consumption and create the conditions for reforms needed to endow the EU with an autonomous fiscal capacity.
Federalism and Climate Change: towards a European and Global Green Deal
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Domènec Ruiz Devesa
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Member of the European Parliament; Member of the Executive Bureau of the UEF. Vice President of UEF-Spain
Born of Young People a Cosmopolitan Movement against Global Warming
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Roberto Palea
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Member and former President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism
Young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s statements – which have circulated around the world and sparked off the protest of hundreds of thousands of young people from hundreds of countries all over the world against government inaction on global warming – reminded me of Andersen’s Danish fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes, in which the voice of an innocent child who dared to shout: “the king is naked” spoke the truth to the multitude of complacent or just gullible subjects.
Climate change in India and the World
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Sushismita Pattanaik and James W. Arputharaj
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Sushismita Pattanaik isPhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow of ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Member of WFM
James W. Arputharaj is President of South Asian Federalists; Former EC member of WFM; Coordinator for India for the Campaign for UN Parliamentary Assembly; Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
The Green New Deal Narrative Fueled by the “New Deal 4 Europe” Campaign
- Federalist Action
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Nicola Vallinoto
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WFM Council member
The American economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin cites the “New Deal 4 Europe” Campaign as the first citizens' campaign launched by EU political activists to promote the Green New Deal. In his last book titled “The Green New Deal. Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth”...
The COPLA Campaign at the United Nations General Assembly
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Emilia Ismael
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Executive Coordinator of Democracia Global
A Global Campaign for a World Citizens’ Initiative
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70 Years of the Council of Europe. The Longest Period of Peace in Europe's History
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Ulrich Bohner
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Honorary President of the Strasbourg Europe House. Former Secretary General of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
An Appeal to the European People to Dare the Impossible
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Michel Herland
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Economist, honorary professor at the Universities of Aix-en-Provence and at the University of the Antilles and Guiana, member of the UEF-South France (PACA) and member of the editorial board of Fédéchoses
Jeremy Rifkin: “A Global Green New Deal”
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Roberto Palea
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Member and Former President of the Centre for Studies on Federalism
Jeremy Rifkin
“The Green New Deal. Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth”
St. Martin's Press, 2019
The latest book by Jeremy Rifkin, the renowned economist and futurologist from Cornell University in New York, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, and adviser on environmental and climate matters to the European Union, China and other public authorities, whose work focuses on the relationship between the evolution of science and technology and economic development, the environment and culture, is entitled “A Global Green New Deal”.
Federalism against Federalism
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Maurice Braud
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National Secretary of the French Socialist Party. Member of the Executive Committee of the European Movement-France. President of the Jean Monnet Association
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