Andrew Duff has written to European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy on beahlf of European Federalists with proposals to solve the current crisis in the EU. A copy of the letter is attached here. Read more →

The Spinelli Group will hold an alternative European summit and present a “federal act” to solve the crisis. The situation is critical. Europe can no longer wait. Since European leaders keep carefully avoiding the real decision, the European Commission has to take her full responsibility. It is the sole institution that can put forward draft legislation. … Read more →

Reacting to the escalating crisis in the European Union, the President of the Union of European federalists Andrew Duff MEP is calling for swift action to set up European economic government. In a statement today Duff says: This prolonged crisis has exposed the critical flaw at the heart of the European Union, which is the … Read more →

by Andrew Duff. The present deeply troubling state of the European Union demands urgent, radical and decisive action to be taken by the European Council at its meeting of 28-29 June 2012.

Europe needs a blueprint, roadmap and schedule for political union. All the EU institutions must be involved in the preparation of this process according to their own mandates but, at least initially, a core group of states must come together to form a determined vanguard under a new European Fiscal Solidarity Treaty. Read more →

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