L’UE deve comportarsi come un singolo stato Draghi dice a EP. L’UE deve riformare radicalmente il modo in cui opera in modo che possa comportarsi come un singolo stato per affrontare le enormi sfide davanti a essa, l’ex premier italiano e l’ex presidente della Banca centrale europea Mario Draghi hanno detto martedì al Parlamento europeo
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Mario Draghi’s assertion that the EU must behave like a single state highlights a pressing debate regarding its structural challenges, especially amid rising geopolitical tensions and economic stagnation. Critics argue that while Draghi’s recommendations for centralization are ambitious, they may overlook crucial aspects of the EU’s diversity and adaptability, suggesting that federalization without fundamental reforms could exacerbate existing issues rather than resolve them.
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*Ceterum censeo exercitum Europaeum esse creandum.*
I would never want to live in a federal Europe. The EU exists to safeguard sovereignty, not override it. Closer cooperation is great. Closer economic ties is better. A federal power from some distant polity telling individual sovereign state what to do? No. I will vote against it every time.
Nice dream but don’t go there, putins third lady orban and lap dog vucic will just rail everything. Unified front without those security liabilities is better.
Every day I feel like we are getting closer to the cyberpunk dystopias I’ve read or watched as a kid.
We just have the shittier version without neon and cybernetics.
But a European Federation is absolutely something from a sci-fi.
“Behave like an individual state” If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… we might as well assume it: we want a Federal EU.
The recent meeting in France showed that everyone will look out for themselves. Gook luck friends. Start making escape plans if things go south in the next few years. I have a feeling the EU will be shriveled up within the next few decades.
For the people staying God speed.
No thanks
It’s the only way to survive in the future. Otherwise, have fun getting crushed by the US, Russia, China, India.
It’s telling of the level of the current generation of EU politicians when a technocrat almost in his eighties has a clearer political project than most of them. The EU as it was born in Maastricht, on the foolish premise that history had ended with the fall of the iron curtain and trade in a globalised world was the future, is dead and has been for a good while yet barely anyone noticed up there. It abdicated to its role in the world and history thinking it was superfluous getting sidelined and dwarfed.
Everyone keeps saying this all the time but then nothing ever happens, so other people say it. Ironically, the people saying it are usually the ones with the power to influence or act but still nothing happens. Welcome to Europe, the continent of stagnation.
Yeah it’s not like he discovered something groundbreaking with this, but there is also another non-discovery lining up for him:
It’s unrealistic, pretty much impossible to unify such different countries with different geopolitics into one big federation (or whatever shape he has in mind) without few countries rebelling shortly afterwards/without twenty countries rebelling shortly afterwards.
This is the problem with all these politicians who spent too much time in Brussels. They are completely detached from the nation-states- situation we politically live in currently.
Europe is waay too diverse to float such ideas and not be accused of total detachment. It’s utterly unrealistic.
I feel like a not insignificant contributing factor to why we see the dysfunctionality of the US today is that their project of “unifying” the states into a federation never went all the way. They are still separate entities where the weight of ones vote is determined by the population distribution at the time of the state joining.
From my European perspective I can completely sympathise with the sentiment that if my state were to join a federation I’d not want our influence over our future to be diluted by the more populous powers like Germany and France, but the final end-state, the goal, of federalizing can’t imo be to just accept that some citizens votes weigh more in perpetuity either.
As a Scandinavian it’s relatively easy for me to see a step in between the nationstates and a federalized union where regions of similar population and with more aligned values and goals first “unify”, since the Nordics have a similar culture with similar goals (and already have the Nordic Council), but I don’t know if that’d be possible in the rest of Europe? Not to mention that even a unified Nordics would still be like half or a third the population of Germany.
I’m all for more cooperation and having a unified front, but if we aren’t careful we’d end up with a situation like in the US where the vast majority feel no connection to the politics of the (new) nation and we’ll be similarily taken advantage off. I think many EU-citizens already today feel Brussels is detached from them and that it’s overreaching on things it shouldn’t concern itself with, underperforming in the areas it should and playing political games only possible because the populous aren’t invested or informed.
The most important step would be the removal of the veto and ensuring that every EU citizens vote counts for the same seats in EU Parliament.
We can either peacefully move toward a federation on our own terms or have terms dictated to us by the United States, China, and Russia. Another possibility is the return of European wars. Instead of just confronting Russia, the future could bring more regional conflicts sparked by far-right leaders.
To behave like and single state we need a common budget, common taxes, common debt, common… It is not going to happen.
No shit.
#PRÉCIS: Draghi Calls for EU to Act as a Single State to Tackle Growing Challenges
The European Union must urgently overhaul the way it operates to meet the immense challenges ahead, former Italian Prime Minister and ex-European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has told the European Parliament. Speaking in Brussels, Draghi argued that the bloc must behave as if it were a single state, calling for a radical shift in governance to ensure a more coordinated response to economic stagnation and global competition.
With Europe’s economy lagging while much of the world surges ahead, he stressed that the EU needs unprecedented unity across governments, parliaments, and institutions. The solution, he said, must be swift, bold, and laser-focused on industries that will drive future growth. Breaking down internal barriers, harmonising regulations, and creating a stronger capital market based on equity would be crucial to maintaining Europe’s competitiveness.
Time is running out, Draghi warned, and only through speed, scale, and intense cooperation can the EU hope to keep pace with an increasingly dynamic global economy.
Yeah and they started at Paris with a first class citizen meeting. Smh…
Best we can do is nothing.
Yesssss! European Federation! 🇪🇺
No shit but you’re not gonna get it unless you tackle all the right wing anti-EU _”divide and conquer”_ propaganda coming from abroad.
Alone, we are hopeless. The only way to have any semblance of a say in this world is through Unity.
The single state veto has to end. It makes the EU too vulnerable.
This is exactly why Putin worked to make sure enough of the EU was weakened ahead of time – helped get the UK to leave the EU, and helped get his fascist puppet governments in charge of Hungary, Italy, and Austria. That might be enough to be sure the EU *doesn’t* come together like this and be the foil to Putin’s plan that it can be.
Finally a smart statement. Unfortunately won’t happen. The individual interest trainwreck is unstoppable into the abyss.
A Individual State with very unbalanced strength among inner states and that makes citizen even more distant from the head of decisions.
Realistically, whenever citizen will get shrunk for the “greater good” of Europe, they will question what’s the greater good, and will find out there is no common idea about it. How this project doesn’t collide with the request of sovereignty and democracy?
Yeah well if you can convince germany to not take refugees or convince france to stop their nuclear policies
Talking about a unified europe is easy. The reality makes it basically impossible. The countries have way too extreme differing stances on a lot of topics
Yeah, no shit. One of the key reasons why the independent, north american colonies eventually became a federation and started behaving like a single entity was out of fear that they were so vulnerable to influene and other external threats from major European powers that they would ultimately get reconquered either politically, financially or through sheer force one by one. Which is exactly what appears to happening today in Europe.
When the EU becomes a federation, can we rename it to European Hegemony? [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/European_Hegemony](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/European_Hegemony)
They better listen to super Mario. This guy is an economic super hero
Draghi is the only that has an actually idea of how the Continent should progress. I dont agree with Macron on everything either but he is the same. It feels like every other leader is bereft of ideas or conviction and just want to suck up to the Americans or prefer to waffle the same platitudes we have been hearing for decades.
Whatever it takes!
Giving up our sovereignty to the fucking EU LOL?! There is a bigger chance that the EU cease to exist, then there is of *that* happening (thank god) They can’t even run the EU efficiently, imagine if it was declared a country
Super Earth Federation.
Not even the more cohesive and larger states of Western Europe could get past anything but an economic and defensive military alliance. Now with expansion into the east you have thrown in numerous smaller, squabbling states especially in Central Europe and the Balkans. Good luck.
I think if there is to be some successful attempts unification in Europe it needs to be on regional rather than continental lines. Iberia. Scandinavia. Benelux. Baltics. Balkans (lol). Regional interests align more than continental interests.
Was the expansion of the EU and NATO a mistake? If you can get past the narrative of “pro-Russian” to say that it was, I think these organisations have only become more internally dysfunctional with expansion.
USA didn’t let that happen to Latin America (even between countries with a common native language and religion); I don’t see Russia China and USA letting it happen here. Sadly, we’ll fight between us like we have been doing since Middle Ages.
The push in history has always been between Big Empires and Small States – This was usually dependent on technology and weapons, but it always swings back and forth. After WW2, we had a focus on smaller nation states again, de-colonization and re-establishment of individual nations.
Now, we see movement towards the big empire states again. Russia is trying (and failing) to set up a great union again. USA is prospecting land grab with Greenland, Canada and Panama, and China has already started with all the places that will get me shadowbanned if I say it, but also looking at Taiwan, northern manchuria and other close by areas.
So China is leading the way here.
Europe, could potentially pull this off, and it would have some huge ramifications. A unified nation with half a billion people. A huge army, tons of diplomatic capital, a very strong and trusted currency. I don’t know if it will, but it could.