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Από: "Together for Europe - Movement for the European Federal Union"

Απεσταλμένα: Παρ, 17 Απρ, 2026 στις 16:28

Θέμα: Six Years On — And the World Has Caught Up With Our Vision

​ ​ Six Years On — And the World Has Caught Up With Our Vision ​ Dear friends, members & fellow Europeans, Six years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, a small but determined group of citizens came together under the name Movimento Insieme — Together for Europe — with a conviction that many considered idealistic: that Europe's only future is a federal one. Today, on our sixth anniversary, we write to you with the quiet confidence of a movement that has lived to see the world validate its founding argument. The Moment We Warned About Has Arrived When we launched, we framed European federation as a moral imperative — the hard-won lesson of a continent that had learned, at enormous cost, that fragmented sovereignties breed conflict. Crisis after crisis has since transformed that argument into urgent strategic reality. The COVID pandemic exposed member states' inability to coordinate even basic protective responses. The war in Ukraine stripped bare Europe's military dependency on the United States. And the open hostility of a U.S. administration toward its European allies — including threats against European territory — has produced a sobering reckoning across the continent. When the U.S. President redeclared interest in acquiring Greenland, twenty-seven foreign ministries issued twenty-seven statements. None mattered. A continent of 450 million citizens spoke with the geopolitical weight of a trade association. This is precisely what Together for Europe was founded to confront. The choice is stark: federation or vassalage. What We Stand For We are a pan-European people's movement with a specific demand: a European Federal Union with a democratically elected President, a bicameral Parliament, a unified military, and a federal judiciary. Not centralisation for its own sake, but a renewed social contract that protects the diversity of European nations while ensuring they endure in freedom rather than as dependencies of foreign powers. A Message from Distomo To mark this anniversary, our founder Dimitris Tsingos travelled to Distomo, Greece — where on June 10th, 1944, Nazi forces massacred more than 200 civilians in one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. The memories of that war are fading. The last survivors are leaving us. We have a moral duty to remember that peace and freedom are never guaranteed — they must be actively defended, together. We invite you to watch his message: ​ Join Us as a Full Member Six years in, this movement grows only as fast as the people willing to stand behind it — and that means more than following our work. It means becoming a full member of Together for Europe. As a member, you join an organised, grassroots force pushing for real constitutional change. You connect with fellow federalists across the continent. You help turn a bold vision into our new reality. If you believe the European Federal Union is not just desirable but necessary, today — our sixth anniversary — is the moment to act. 👉 Become a full member today​ Together for Europe Team Recent news & articles that relate to our Mission EUobserver, Alberto Alemanno, Harvard Democracy Fellow: Europe’s democratic winter — How EU leaders impose deregulation, bypassing citizens and MEPs​ ​ Alemanno argues that Europe is experiencing a "democratic winter" — a quiet but systematic retreat from participatory governance at precisely the moment when the stakes are highest. Consequential decisions on defence, industry, trade and strategic autonomy are being made at breakneck speed, with minimal debate, civil society shut out, and elected representatives sidelined while corporate lobbyists increasingly dominate the EU agenda. ​ Alemanno warns that this is a misdiagnosis: true strategic autonomy requires a European public that wants it, demands it, and is willing to bear its costs — and that requires democratic consent, not its bypass. ​ Alemanno's democratic winter is, at its root, the consequence of a structure built on intergovernmental bargaining rather than democratic federalism. ​ The system is what it does: When national leaders in the European Council make continent-shaping decisions behind closed doors, bypassing Parliament and citizens, they are not abusing a healthy system, they are operating exactly as that system was designed. ​ The remedy is not procedural reformism but constitutional transformation: a European Federal Union with genuine democratic legitimacy, where sovereign power flows from the people up, not from national governments down. ​ From Jacques de Larosière — former IMF Managing Director and Governor of the Banque de France: Europe is Far from a Hamiltonian Moment​ ​ While EU common debt has grown to nearly €700bn under NextGenerationEU, it bears no resemblance to Hamilton's 1790 assumption of state debts. ​ The difference is one of sovereignty: US federal debt rests on unified governmental authority, whereas the European Commission must continuously negotiate with member states to service what it issues. There is no unified European state standing behind it. Those who believe Europe has reached its Hamiltonian moment are, in his words, victims of self-delusion. ​ The article's diagnosis implies its own remedy. Hamilton's achievement was not primarily financial but constitutional. It worked because it was backed by a sovereign federal government with democratic legitimacy. ​ Europe's fiscal integration will remain structurally fragile for as long as there is no European Federal Union standing behind it. The path to a genuine Hamiltonian moment runs through federation. ​ You are not a full member yet? Donate Together for Europe to support the movement. €20.00 / year Together for Europe - Annual Subscription Every euro from your contribution goes towards advancing our cause, sustaining our website, and organizing meaningful... Read more Support Us! ​ Follow us! ​​​​ Via delle Industrie 19 Venice VE 30175 ​Unsubscribe · Preferences​