POUR QUE L’UE GARDE SON CAP

Depuis plus d’un an, l’ UNION DES FÉDÉRALISTES EUROPÉENS (UEF) a entrepris une remarquable campagne de promotion du projet européen.

Cette campagne vise re-situer le développement de l’Europe dans le cadre de ses objectifs initiaux d’une « union toujours plus étroite des peuples européens » (préambules des traités) - cad de création d’un ensemble de type fédéral susceptible à la fois de renforcer l’unité et la solidarité entre ses États membres et de maintenir sa place et son rôle au plan mondial.

Contrairement à d’autres organisations pro-européennes en apparence moins motivées, l’UEF s’attache à suivre attentivement l’actualité européenne et internationale et à prendre des positions précises et exigeantes sur les principales questions à l’ordre du jour.  

Elle base notamment ses positions sur une conception de type originaliste du fonctionnement des Institutions et de leurs relations avec les États membres - conception assortie de propositions de réforme constitutionnelle. 

Nous en donnons ci-dessous l’exemple le plus récent :  "A 7-Points Roadmap for the United States of Europe » dans lequel son très actif Président - Domènec Ruiz Devesa) (1) propose une série de mesures liées au contexte international immédiat.

 Et nous renvoyons les lecteurs aux sites web de l’organisation mère : https://federalists.eu - ainsi que de sa section française : https://www.uef.fr . 

 Dans cette période passablement troublée, il est vital que l’Union Européenne garde son cap en se référant à ses principes fondamentaux dont la pertinence s’avère chaque jour plus actuelle. 

Jean-Guy Giraud (19 - 01 - 2025)

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(1) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domènec_Ruiz_Devesa

A 7-Points Roadmap for theUnited States of EuropeSTATEMENT of the UNION OF EUROPEAN FEDERALISTS

Brussels, 19 January 2026 

One year after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, it is clear that the strategy of appeasement pursued by Member States and Commission has utterly failed. It has not been just a miscalculation, but an abdication of duty. From false accusations of misinformation and limitation of the freedom of speech, to the arbitrary and unilateral NATO defence spending targets and the predatory "Turnberry Tariffs" (15% vs 0%), to the pressures to alter our digital and environmental regulations, the US National Security Strategy, the sanctions against EU citizens and former officials, blatant violations of international law, and the illegal pressure for Greenland’s annexation, Europe has endured a year of impositions and humiliations. Enough is enough!

The UEF calls for an immediate change of course through the following 7-point programmatic roadmap:

I. Immediate Measures

1. Rejection of the 2025 Turnberry Tariffs: The European Parliament must refuse to approve this lopsided deal. We cannot sacrifice our sovereignty and economy to avoid upsetting the White House.

2. Activation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument: The EU must use its existing tools to counter Washington’s systematic policy of economic pressure to take over Greenland, including in the digital field.

3. EU Deployment in Greenland: We must put the current deployment of troops from European countries in Greenland under EU command, including the planning of exercises by the EU Rapid Deployment Capacity. Protecting the territorial integrity of the Arctic is a common European responsibility.

II. Strategic Sovereignty

4. Full European Responsibility for Ukraine: We must accept that the defence of  Ukraine and of Europe are intertwined, and fall on us. This requires increasing and accelerating current investments to substitute the so-called "irreplaceable" US assets, specifically increasing our satellite capabilities, intelligence feed, strategic airlift, air-to-air refuelling, and high-end electronic warfare.

5. Activation of Common Defence (Lisbon Treaty): As recently requested by leaders like Pedro Sánchez, we must activate the common defence provisions in the Lisbon Treaty, or by those States willing to proceed, in order to create an EU chain of military command, including the implementation of the Kubilius plan of a 100,000-strong EU multinational force.

6. Strengthened promotion of EU models of digital payments: including the digital euro, social networks, software, and artificial intelligence.

III. The Federal Leap

• Constitutional Reform for the United States of Europe: We must immediately open the process for the reform of the Treaties on the basis of Parliament´s proposal of November 2023 to constitute the United States of Europe. This means an empowered Parliament, an Executive capable of acting, and the general abolition of national vetoes in the Council.

Appeasement only feeds authoritarianism and vassalisation; federal unity is our only way out.

As the poet Hölderlin wrote: "But where the danger is, also grows the saving power."

Domènec Ruiz Devesa, President of the Union of the European Federalists and MEP 2019-2024

Mathilde Baudouin, Secretary General of the Union of European Federalists