The European Federation
The European Federation By Paolo Falconio Member of the Honorary Governing Council and lecturer at the Society of International Studies (SEI) This European Union has proven as inadequate as it is ineffective in defending European interests. Its very mechanism of step‑by‑step integration translates into treaties that must be ratified and that impose rigid rules, incapable of adapting to a world in constant transformation. Consider the ban on state aid, which prevents strategic industrial policies in a world where China and the United States (think of the Stargate project) have no such taboos. If Europe and the European States want to have a future, they must recover the spirit of the founding fathers—Schumann, Adenauer, De Gasperi. This must be done by the Europe west of the Elbe, the old Union before the eastern enlargement, which was an operation against European integration. These nations in the East come from centuries of domination (from Austro‑Hungarian to S...