APPEAL TO EUROPE’S SIX FOUNDER MEMBERS
FOR A EUROPEAN FEDERAL STATE
The European Union is unable to rise to the economic, commercial, environmental, political and military challenges that now face the citizens of Europe. Only a true European federation can rise to these challenges.
Therefore, the undersigned … …………………………………
- being convinced of the need to restart the process of building Europe outside the ambit of the existing Treaties, as these now offer no room for progress in a federal direction;
- considering it urgent to create the first core of a European federal state, equipped with the instruments and resources to intervene efficiently in the new global balance;
- maintaining that the responsibility for accomplishing this profound action rests on Europe's six founder states, on their politicians and institutions, and primarily on those of France, Germany and Italy.
Hereby requests
- the stipulation of a federal pact, through which those states willing to do so will transfer to Europe their sovereignty in the fields of defence, political, military and economic policy;
- the convening of a constituent assembly, elected within the ambit of those countries that have entered into the pact, which will receive a mandate to draw up the Constitution of a true European federal state that will remain open to all those countries subsequently wishing to join it, starting with those that have adopted the euro