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Time for an EU Declaration of Independence (english.elpais.com)
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"Only a more federal Europe can cope with these challenges, ensuring the respect of our fundamental values and rights.(..) To this end, we support the creation of a renewed cross-partisan and inter-institutional pro-European coalition encompassing the most committed Member States in the European Council, the pro-European majority in the European and National Parliaments, the European Commission, and regional and local institutions, over and above the particular inertias of each institution, and the pro-European organized civil society. We call on them all to mobilize locally, nationally, and transnationally to support these requests for a more sovereign and democratic Union."

This text is based on the declaration adopted by the relaunched Action Committee for the United States of Europe, 18 October 2025, Jean Monnet House, Houjarray/ Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France

Original declaration federalists.eu

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[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

memberstates cede power to a supranational entity

Which as it is we only do marginally and only on things we have specifically agreed to. This was one of the key arguments that was the reason Denmark couldn't join the Maastricht-treaty that ended ECC and formed EU in 1991, and instead had the Edinburgh-agreement in 1992.
The exceptions Denmark achieved are basically irrelevant to the functioning of Denmark in EU. For instance we have our own currency, but the Danish Crown is tied to the Euro anyway. So the difference to having the Euro is academic.

EU regulation is written into law by each separate country, and upheld for the country by the country. EU is NOT a federation because it doesn't have neither a central government or a central set of laws. There is no central force controlled by EU of any kind, that will enter your country to do anything. Either Police, or veterinary, or military intelligence or anything.

Anyway to avoid any prejudice I personally use the term "The European Project".

I hear politicians use that term too, and I 100% condone that description, because it definitely is a project, and a very significant one.

Whatever it is, there is nothing like it anywhere in the world.

Exactly, and we shouldn't devolve it to some ancient structure that doesn't work.