Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Duff Andrew
    A European Government to Get out of the Crisis
    in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXVII, n. 1, March ,  2014
    Five years ago you had the temerity to elect me, at our Congress in Paris, as your President1. What a five years this has been. It has been, first and foremost, the five years of the Great Crash, in which our banking system almost collapsed, our standard of living declined, and any complacency we may have had about the rise of Europe in the world stakes was dispelled. It has been five years of asymmetric shock which has tested to destruction the EMU settlement of the Treaty of Maastricht. It has been five years of hectic crisis management by the leaders and institutions of the European Union – making some mistakes, learning by doing (often too little, too late). After the first great crash in 1929, Europe fell apart and went back to the battlefield and descended into the worst depravities ever known to man. This time it has indeed been different. European unity has survived intact – not covered in glory, not making great strides to the federal constitutional settlement which we at UEF want to see, not without social hardship, particularly among the young, not without losing out in international affairs – but nevertheless the semblance of unity and the basic structure of the European Union has survived.
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