The future of the EU: Federalisation: a far-reaching goal of European integration?

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Pierre Mikaël LIGAVAN

MA in Contemporary European Studies / University of Bath

2002/2003

The future of the EU: Federalisation: a far-reaching goal of European integration?

Table of Contents

I. Ins and Outs of European future 2

II. A Federation of Nation-States 2

A. European Federation 3

B. Proposals 3

C. European Constitution 4

III. National debates 7

Bibliography 10

Introduction

The debate on the future of Europe is a legacy of the Nice Treaty. It is now all the more important as the deadline of IGC 2004, discussing the future of Europe, is getting closer.

Two years ago, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer forcefully re-launched the idea of a European federation, what he called a "federation of nation-states". The notion of a "federation of nation-states" was inspired of J.Delors proposal.

Indeed, eleven years before, Jacques Delors, then President of the Commission, while speaking at the College of Europe in Bruges, had floated the idea of a European federation based on subsidiarity, and most importantly on the autonomy and identity of its constituent states.1

Going back to the origins, Over