The Spinelli Draft Treaty (14 February 1984 – 14 February 2022)
Monday, 14 February 2022 17h30-19h00
Dear federalist friends,
In 1984, the European Parliament adopted the draft of a European Constitution, which could still solve problems the EU faces today: nearly completely abolishing national vetoes, deciding the EU budget by Parliament and Council together, the EU court checking member states on questions of human rights and the rule of law, health and other societal policies to be a shared competence between EU and member states.
This courageous move 38 years ago is a wake-up call to pro-Europeans while the Conference on the Future of Europe is entering into its decision-making phase.
We invite you to hear some of the witnesses explain key features of the 1984 draft treaty. Current MEPs will comment how this can inspire today’s decisions. Join our hybrid event on 14 February 2022 17h30-19h00 either online or in 76 Allée de la Robertsau, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
Speakers at the event will include:
Pier Virgilio Dastoli, President of European Movement Italy, former secretary to Altiero Spinelli, lead author of this draft treaty
Heidi Marie Wieczorek Zeul, Social-Democrat MEP 1979-87, later German Federal minister for economic development
Jean Paul Jacqué, Spinelli draft treaty jurist
Monica Frassoni, former secretary general JEF
Enrique Barón Crespo, former President of European Parliament and European Movement International
Jean Victor Louis, Professor Emeritus at the University of Brussels (ULB)
Danuta Hübner, MEP (EPP/Poland) and Member of the COFE
Katalin Cseh, MEP (Renew/Hungary) and Member of the COFE
UEF, together with the Spinelli Group, JEF and the Movimento Europeo Italia, suggest that pro-Europeans in Parliaments and the Conference on the Future of Europe open a debate about the method adopted by our EP in 1979-1984 and the gap between the main results of this parliamentarian common work and the situation of the European Union as it is now. The Spinelli Draft Treaty and its method and its content should inspire our work in the framework of the debate on the future of Europe. Find here the full statement.
Looking forward to the discussion!
With federalist regards,
Daniel FREUND, Pier VIRGILIO DASTOLI, Sandro GOZI, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA and Antonio ARGENZIANO
Reforming the European Electoral Law: Options for Establishing Transnational Lists
Online Workshop on Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 6.00 p.m.
Dear federalist friends,
We would like to remind you to join our next online event « Reforming the European Electoral Law: Options for Establishing Transnational Lists ».
In the evening following the Constitutional Affairs Committee’s decision on its report on transnational lists, we invite you to an online workshop on the reform of the European electoral law. The event is organised by the “Political Commission 1” of the Union of European Federalists in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU-Office Brussels and the University of Passau. It will discuss the current state of negotiations in the European Parliament: How does its proposal for transnational lists look like? Does it have a chance of finding a majority within the Parliament and later on in the Council?
The workshop will also consider the impact of the current proposals. Expectations include that transnational lists will lead to truly European electoral campaigns, strengthen European political parties and a European public sphere. Does the current proposal have the potential to strengthen European democracy this way? Which changes would be useful to fully exploit the potential of transnational lists for European democracy?
These and further questions from participants will be discussed with distinguished speakers.
AGENDA
Welcome
Sandro GOZI, President of UEF; Member of the European Parliament
Julian PLOTTKA, Chair of PC 1, Union of European Federalists; University of Passau
Panelists
Sandro GOZI, President of UEF; Member of the European Parliament
Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Vice-President of UEF; Member of the European Parliament (tbc)
Dr. Thu NGUYEN, Jacques Delors Centre/Hertie School
Dr. Manuel MÜLLER, University of Duisburg-Essen
Moderator
Prof. Dr. Giulia ROSSOLILLO, Rapporteur of PC 1, Union of European Federalists; Università di Pavia
If you like to read more about the topic of transnational lists and UEF’s position on strengthening European democracy, we recommend to you:
Thu Nguyen: The holy trinity of EU elections: Transnational lists, Spitzenkandidaten procedure and a stronger European Parliament, Jacques Delors Centre: Policy Paper, December 2021, available here.
Manuel Müller: Making the Most of Transnational Lists. Electoral Equality at EU Level Through Proportional Compensation, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, available here.
Union of European Federalists: Resolution of the UEF Federal Committee on a Declaration on the Conference on the Future Of Europe, November 2019, available here.
The Procedure File on Reforming the European electoral law, including the draft committee report, is available here.
We would like
to remind you to join our Democracy is
Europe Final Conference. The sessions will take place on 2ndand 3rd
December 2021.
AGENDA
Thursday, 2 December, 2021
14.00 – 15.30 CET The
central role of European values in the revolutions of 1989-1991 and their
state of play today in Eastern and Central Europe: Presentation of the
project outcomes
Sandro GOZI, MEP & President,
UEF
Stefano BRAGHIROLI, University of
Tartu, Estonia
Eszter NAGY, Secretary-General, UEF
Hungary
Laura TATARELYTE, European
Movement Lithuania
Christian MOOS, Secretary-General,
Europa Union Deutschland e.V.
Jacek KOLTAN,
Director’s representative, European Solidarity Centre, Poland
9:30 – 11.00
CET European democracy in the Conference on the Future of Europe
Francisco
ALDECOA, Professor of International Relations at
the Complutense University of Madrid, President of the European Movement
in Spain and Director of the Civil Society Representation of the
Conference on the Future of Europe
Leonie
MARTIN, JEF President 2019-2021
Jorge
PAZOS – CoFoE Democracy working group
Ingrid GODKIN,
Policy & Administrative Coordination, Cabinet of Vice President Šuica
for Democracy and Demography, European Commission
Moderates: Alejandra ALMARCHA, Director of the Secretariat, UEF
11.30 – 13:00 CET How to combat disinformation & fake
news: media freedom in Central Europe
Paul
BUTCHER, Policy analyst on citizen participation,
disinformation, democracy, EU reform, Western Balkans, EU
enlargement, European Policy Centre (EPC)
Žiga
FAKTOR, Head of Brussels Office, EUROPEUM
Natasza
STYCZYŃSKA, Assistant professor, Institute of
European Studies, Jagiellonian University Kraków
Wojciech
PRZYBYLSKI, Editor-in-Chief, Visegrad
Insight
Moderates: Federico TERRENI, Policy and Advocacy Manager, European Movement International
14.00 – 15.30 CET Training “Talking about the EU at the
local level – How to organise events in the framework of the Conference
on the Future of Europe”
Alejandra
ALMARCHA, Director of the Secretariat, UEF
Mariona
ESPÍN, Communications Officer, UEF
Michal
RYBACKI, Policy Officer, JEF Europe
Ilaria CARIA,
Communication Team, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)
15.45 – 16.30 CET #DemocracyIsEurope Awards Ceremony
One year ago, the Union of
European Federalists (UEF) embarked on our “Democracy is
Europe: Remember to Revive” journey across the
Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe. Two main ideas were behind this: on one
hand, to raise awareness about the central role of European values in the revolutions
of 1989-1991; on the other hand, to encourage a reflection on the future of
Europe, European democracy and the Rule of Law. After our online stops in
Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, and our physical ones in Gdańsk (PL) and
Prague (CZ), UEF’s #DemocracyIsEurope
project is coming to an end with our final conference in Brussels on 2-3
December 2021.
Brussels is the chosen scenario in which the project “democracy activators”,
participants, stakeholders and researchers will present and discuss the outcomes
of the project, commemorate membership in the EU of the aforementioned Member
states, and advocate for further European integration based on the
strengthening and protection of democracy and the Rule of Law.
AGENDA
Thursday, 2 December, 2021
14.00 – 15.30
CET The central role of European values in the revolutions of
1989-1991 and their state of play today in Eastern and Central Europe:
Presentation of the project outcomes
Sandro GOZI, MEP & President, UEF
Stefano BRAGHIROLI, University of Tartu, Estonia
Eszter NAGY, Secretary-General, UEF Hungary
Laura TATARELYTE, European Movement Lithuania
Christian MOOS, Secretary-General, Europa Union Deutschland e.V.
Jacek KOLTAN, Director’s representative, European Solidarity Centre, Poland (tbc)
Moderates: Giulia STEFANO, Project Officer,
UEF
16:00 –
17:30 Defending and strengthening democracy in the EU: Article 7 of
TFEU and Conditionality
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Chair of the LIBE Committee in the European Parliament
Ania SKRZYPEK, Director for Research and Training, Foundations for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
Nicolaas BEL, Deputy Head of Unit, Justice policy and rule of law Unit, Directorate General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission
Moderates: Alejandra ALMARCHA,
Director of the Secretariat, UEF
17.30 CET – 19:00 CET Competition: #DemocracyIsEurope
ideas for the future of Europe
Friday, 3 December, 2021
9:30 – 11.00
CET European democracy in the Conference on the Future of Europe
Francisco ALDECOA, Professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, President of the European Movement in Spain and Director of the Civil Society Representation of the Conference on the Future of Europe
Leonie MARTIN, JEF President 2019-2021
Citizen representative – Democracy working group
Ingrid GODKIN, Policy & Administrative Coordination, Cabinet of Vice President Šuica for Democracy and Demography, European Commission
Moderates: Alejandra ALMARCHA,
Director of the Secretariat, UEF
11.30 – 13:00 CET How to combat disinformation & fake
news: media freedom in Central Europe
Paul BUTCHER, Policy analyst on citizen participation, disinformation, democracy, EU reform, Western Balkans, EU enlargement, European Policy Centre (EPC)
Žiga FAKTOR, Head of Brussels Office, EUROPEUM
Natasza STYCZYŃSKA, Assistant professor, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University Kraków (tbc)
Wojciech PRZYBYLSKI, Editor-in-Chief, Visegrad Insight (tbc)
Moderates: Christian SKRIVERVIK,
Head of Press and Communications, European Movement International (tbc)
14.00 – 15.30 CET Training “Talking about the EU at
the local level – How to organise events in the framework of the
Conference on the Future of Europe”
Alejandra ALMARCHA, Director of the Secretariat, UEF
Mariona ESPÍN, Communications Officer, UEF
Michal RYBACKI, Policy Officer, JEF Europe
Ilaria CARIA, Communication Team, Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE)
15.45 – 16.30
CET #DemocracyIsEurope Awards Ceremony
The event is going to be a blended activity with an online and
offline (in Brussels, Belgium) settings, and we are looking for online participants! Register here and stay tuned for more
details.
In the context of the Democracy is Europe project,
UEF invites you to join the essay contest « 1989-1991 the fall of
communist regimes: what was the idea of Europe behind the Central-Eastern
European and Baltic countries’ democratic transition? ». Read on the
prize and the conditions to participate here.
One year ago, the Union of
European Federalists (UEF) embarked on our “Democracy is Europe: Remember to Revive”
journey across the Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe. Two main ideas were
behind this: on one hand, to raise awareness about the central role of European
values in the revolutions of 1989-1991; on the other hand, to encourage a
reflection on the future of Europe, European democracy and the Rule of Law. After
our online stops in Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, and our physical ones
in Gdańsk (PL) and Prague (CZ), UEF’s
#DemocracyIsEurope project is coming to an end with our final conference in
Brussels on 2-3 December 2021.
Brussels is the chosen scenario in which the project “democracy activators”,
participants, stakeholders and researchers will present and discuss the
outcomes of the project, commemorate membership in the EU of the aforementioned
Member states, and advocate for further European integration based on the
strengthening and protection of democracy and the Rule of Law.
AGENDA
Thursday,
December 2, 2021
9.00 CET – House of European
History tour
14.00 CET – The central role of
European values in the revolutions of 1989-1991
16:00 CET – Defending and
strengthening democracy in the EU
17.30 CET – Competition:
#DemocracyIsEurope ideas for the future of Europe
Friday, December 3,
2021
9:30 CET – European democracy
in the Conference on the Future of Europe
11.30 CET – How to combat
disinformation & fake news
14.00 CET – Training “Talking
about the EU at the local level
15.45 CET – #DemocracyIsEurope
Awards Ceremony
The event is going to be a blended activity with an online and
offline (in Brussels, Belgium) settings, and we are looking for international,
local and online participants! For the 10 international participants who
are more motivated and want to participate physically, we will cover
accommodation expenses, and we will reimburse their travel fees up to 150 euros
(per person). Register here and stay tuned for more
details.
In the context of the Democracy is Europe project,
UEF invites you to join the essay contest « 1989-1991 the fall of
communist regimes: what was the idea of Europe behind the Central-Eastern
European and Baltic countries’ democratic transition? ». Read on the
prize and the conditions to participate here.
We would like to remind you to join our next hybrid event in the framework of our Democracy is Europe project. The sessions will take place on 11 and 12 November 2021.
AGENDA Thursday, November 11, 2021 – Grandior Hotele, Na Poříčí 42, Praha 1 15.00 CET Democracy is Europe: Remember to Revive – 30 years after the end of the Soviet Union: What can we learn from the transition for the future of Europe?
Sandro GOZI, MEP,
President of the Union of European Federalists
Ivo KAPLAN, UEF
Czechia Secretary General
Moderator: Vladimíra DVORAKOVÁ, director of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies
16.30 CET Training: How to Fight democratic backsliding and populism in our daily life? Trainer: Mathias HAMANN, Institut für Kommunikation und Gesellschaft
Friday, November 12,
2021 – CEFRES, French Research Center in Humanities and Social
Sciences, Na Florenci 3 CZ-110 00 Prague 1 9.00 CET
Experiencing History: How did the peaceful revolution feel from inside?
Markéta HODOUSKOVÁ,
director of Kino Visegard
Moderator: Eva SPISAKOVA, Press Officer of the Czech Bishops’ Conference
10.45 CET Panel debate:
Czechia – A More Resilient Democracy in Central Europe?
Petr KUTILEK, Green
Party Politician and Political Scientist
Dr. Jérôme
HEURTAUX, Director of CEFRES (French Research Centre in Humanities and
Social Sciences)
Moderator: Edit ZGUT, Political scientist and a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), DemocraCE fellow at Visegrad Insight
Dear Delegates,
Dear Members of the Federal Committee,
Dear Members of the Executive Bureau,
Dear Presidents and Secretary Generals of the Sections,
Dear Federalist Friends,
In the framework of our XXVII European Congress, « Our Federal
Europe – sovereign and democratic », we would like to kindly invite you to
the UEF SPAIN – SPINELLI GROUP hybrid discussion that will take place on Friday 2nd July 2021, 17.00-20.45 CEST
Venue: Centre Cultural La Nau – Universitat de
València, Carrer de la Universitat, 2, 46003 València, Valencia, Spain
ON THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VENTOTENE MANIFESTO TOWARDS
A FEDERAL EUROPE
16:30 Arrival of the participants
17:00
Welcome and opening statements
María Vicenta Mestre Escrivá,
Rector of the University of Valencia
Joan Calabuig Rull, Regional
Secretary for the European Union and External Relations of the
Government of Valencia
Sergi Campillo, Vice-Mayor of
Valencia
Juan González Barba, Secretary
of State for the European Union, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
European Union and Cooperation, Government of Spain
Jürgen Foecking, vice-director
European Parliament Liaison Office in Madrid
Enrique Barón Crespo, UEF Spain
President
Francisco Aldecoa, president
European Movement Spain
Sandro Gozi, UEF President,
Member of the European Parliament and member of the Conference on the
Future of Europe
18.00 Panel 1: The Federalist strategy in the
Conference of the Future of Europe
Moderator: Enrique Barón Crespo, UEF Spain President
Domènec Ruiz Devesa, Member of
the European Parliament, S&D Group, Vice- President of UEF,
member of the Conference
Danuta Hübner, member of the
European Parliament, EPP Group, Member of the Conference
Katalin Cseh, Member of the
European Parliament, RENEW Group, member of the Conference – tbc
Dimitrios Papadimoulis,
Vice-president of the European Parliament, The Left, member of the
Conference
Fabio Massimo Castaldo,
Vice-President of the European Parliament, Non-Attached, member of
the Conference
19:00 Panel 2: The role of MEPs and national
parliamentarians in the Conference on the Future of Europe
Moderator: Francisco Aldecoa, president European Movement Spain
Héctor Gómez Hernández, member
of the Spanish Parliament (PSOE) and member of the Conference.
Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Member of
the European Parliament, RENEW Group
Jordi Sebastiá i Talavera,
Former Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA Group
Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñero,
Member of the European Parliament, S&D Group
20:00 Closing remarks
Susana Sumelzo, Chair of the
Joint Committee on European Affairs Congress-Senate, Spain – tbc
Brando Benifei, president
Spinelli Group, Member of the European Parliament and member of the
Conference on the Future of Europe
If you would like to attend this event, please register here and do not forget
to indicate if you will join physically or online.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Warm federalist regards,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à l’Assemblée Générale (AG) annuelle de notre association qui se tiendra le samedi 5 juin 2021 de 10h00 à 11h40. Pour des raisons sanitaires (Covid-19), notre AG se tiendra de façon virtuelle (via Zoom).
Première partie de l’AG: Questions statutaires et rapports de 10h00 à 10h40
Au-delà des questions statutaires, nous souhaiterions que cette réunion soit aussi un moment de réflexion politique sur l’Europe et sur l’action des fédéralistes européens. Nous avons invité à cet effet le Député européen et Président du Mouvement européen Belgique, Tom Vandenkendelaere à intervenir et à dialoguer avec nous sur le thème de l’avenir de l’Europe.
En espérant vous voir participer nombreux et nombreuses, merci de confirmer votre présence par courrier électronique, téléphone ou SMS (0460.76.01.84). En cas d’empêchement, merci d’avance de nous envoyer une procuration de vote par courrier électronique.
Avec nos meilleures salutations,
Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero Michele Ciavarini Azzi Secrétaire général Président
Programme de l’Assemblée Générale du 5 juin 2021
Approbation des comptes au 31.12.2020 et décharge aux
administrateurs (1.1.2020-31.12.2020)
Rapport d’activité du
Secrétaire général
Rapport politique du
Président
Présentation des
candidatures et élection du nouveau Conseil d’Administration*
Débat avec Tom
Vandenkendelaere, Député européen
Divers
* Les candidatures (postes à pourvoir : président,
vice-président, administrateur délégué, secrétaire général, trésorier,
responsable communication) doivent être adressées au Président, M. Ciavarini
Azzi, par courriel à Michele.Ciavarini-Azzi@ec.europa.eu)
avant le 29 mai 2021. Tous les membres en ordre de cotisation ont un droit de
vote. Un membre absent peut se faire représenter en donnant une procuration de
vote à un représentant.
Moreover, as a partner
of JEF Europe in the Y-FED project, we would
also like to flag you the Y-FED Large-Scale Model Simulation.
Please, find below the details of each event and project. You are all
invited to attend!
IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
In which Europe would you
like to live in 10 or 20 years’ time?
The Conference on the Future of Europe will begin on May 9,
Europe Day, to define the direction that the European Union should take.
Citizens
and civil society will be able to give their opinion on the Europe they want
and thus contribute to shaping its future in the medium and long term through a
participatory forum.
UEF and Xul Foundation invite
you to participate in this process with Crossroads Europe, a European funded
project, to collect proposals and opinions on the Europe we want in the field
of participatory democracy and representation. These contributions will be
collected in a document of policy recommendations to be submitted to the
Conference on the Future of Europe.
If you want to get involved and contribute, if you wonder how to develop participatory processes in times of pandemic, if you want to broaden your knowledge on citizen participation, if you want to contribute to the construction of Europe and to give your opinion on the challenges it faces and its future, we are counting on you. Do you want to rethink Europe with us? We have planned a series of virtual workshops that will take place ONLINE on April 20 and 21, 2021.
2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the return to freedom and
democracy to Central and Eastern Europe and of Estonia’s restoration of
independence.
The project « Democracy
is Europe » aims to raise awareness on the centrality of the European
ideals in the transitions and peaceful revolutions of 1989-1991 in Central and
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States and to encourage debate and reflection on
the impact of such ideas in today’s Europe.
The Estonian session of
“Democracy is Europe” is organized in cooperation with and locally managed by
the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu.
The Estonian grass-root event
consists of two days of activities. On April 23, two panel sessions will be
held to discuss the historical context of Estonia’s Singing Revolution and its
significance for nations struggling for democracy and freedom nowadays. The
panels will be open to everyone interested. On April 24, the registered
participants, grouped in virtual teams, will work on different creative
projects that capture the significance of Estonia’s experience for today’s
Europe and its fundamental contribution to the process of integration. The day
will be concluded by a keynote speech of Visiting Prof. Toomas Hendrik Ilves,
former president of Estonia (2006-2016).
The full programme of the
event is available at the following link and the Facebook event can be
found here.
Registration is REQUIRED to participate in the event and is available at
the following link (open until April 22).
Y-FED
The project “Y-FED: Europe is what we make of it” aims to bring the EU closer
to its young citizens by developing a proposal for an improved institutional
framework of the Union in line with the European Youth Goals. The initiative,
supported by an Erasmus+ “European Youth Together” grant, will be implemented
between January 2020 and July 2021 through a series of capacity-building
training courses, public policy hackathons, a large-scale simulation of a
reformed EU and advocacy actions. The project partners comprise 18 civil
society organisations as well as 2 networks of European and regional
decision-makers.
About the Large-scale
Model Simulation, 14 – 19 June, 2021
The large-scale simulation is the main event of the nearly 2
years long project “Y-FED: Europe is what we make of it” that will gather more
than 100 young people from all over Europe in an online and physical
environment for 5 days.
As the cherry on the top, the model simulation is none like any
other simulations out there (MUNs, MEUs). It follows its own methodology
recreating a European Union of the future that is more youth-led, more
inclusive, more efficient and closer to its citizens. The model is inspired by
the first edition of Y-FED in 2019 and the hackathon solutions based on the
European Youth goals.
The event is going to be a blended activity with an online and offline
(in Strasbourg, France) settings and the current call is for the participants who will join
the event physically in Strasbourg under the roles of members of “The House of
Citizens” and “The European Senate”. For the rest of the roles
who will through online participation, there will be a call launched in May. The
goal will be to create a synergy between the participants in Strasbourg under
the 2 roles of members of “The House of Citizens” and “The European Senate” and
the journalists, lobbyists and citizens who will join online.
We hope you are all well and enjoying the springtime wherever you are in Europe!
We would like to update you on our next project events! In the context of our Crossoroads EU project we are glad and proud to invite you to attend four interesting sessions, in Spanish, co-organised by our partner Fundacion Xul.
The events will address the topic of Participatory Democracy in the European Union with dialogues at a national and an international level. The participants, in the second phase of the events, will also have the chance to develop the necessary skills to use Digital Platforms for democratic engagement – Decidim.
We kindly invite you to participate and to spread the voice among your network and friends.
IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION In which Europe would you like to live in 10 or 20 years’ time? The Conference on the Future of Europe will begin on May 9, Europe Day, to define the direction that the European Union should take. Citizens and civil society will be able to give their opinion on the Europe they want and thus contribute to shaping its future in the medium and long term through a participatory forum. UEF and Xul Foundation invite you to participate in this process with Crossroads Europe, a European funded project, to collect proposals and opinions on the Europe we want in the field of participatory democracy and representation. These contributions will be collected in a document of policy recommendations to be submitted to the Conference on the Future of Europe. If you want to get involved and contribute, if you wonder how to develop participatory processes in times of pandemic, if you want to broaden your knowledge on citizen participation, if you want to contribute to the construction of Europe and to give your opinion on the challenges it faces and its future, we are counting on you. Do you want to rethink Europe with us? We have planned a series of spaces for dialogue and reflection, as well as virtual workshops that will take place in April.
Fundacion Xul The Spanish non-profit organization Xul Foundation, is one of the nine partners involved in the European project Crossroads Europe, led by the Union of European Federalists, which aims to promote cross-cutting dialogue on the construction of the EU around four thematic axes: climate change, international community, democracy and governance, and security and freedom.