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Oreste Gallo
Francesco Mazzaferro
Domenico Moro
Antonio Padoa Schioppa
Stefano Rossi
April 2024
This document deals with the establishment and characteristics of European defence from a federal perspective. Its aim is both to respond to the immediate political needs of the war in Ukraine (section 1), and to explore three broader questions: how to build a political and institutional framework for common defence actions, effectively constituting a de facto European defence government and paving the way to a European Defence Union (section 2); how to create a European System of Common Defence as the core of the European Defence Union (section 3); and how the political and institutional model proposed here reflects a specific characteristic of federal statehood, namely the duality of defence systems (section 4). Section 1 focuses on the current situation in 2024; section 2 outlines the framework for action of the next European legislature (2024-2029); section 3 proposes the new institutional framework which should be approved by the end of the next legislature, i.e., by 2029, and implemented in the following decade; section 4 provides the theoretical underpinnings that apply to all the stages described above. [...]
Document drafted by a working group consisting of members of the Turin section of the European Union of Federalists: Oreste Gallo, Francesco Mazzaferro, Domenico Moro, Antonio Padoa Schioppa and Stefano Rossi (all in a private capacity, unrelated to their current affiliations).
