More Europe for everybody

A European federal government for a Europe of peace and solidarity

A big risk in front of us

The Party of the Italian Communists[1] and the European Federalist Movement[2] share the idea that Europe, today, faces an historical appointment, which can't be missed.
All the forces and interests that aim at preventing any federal approach of the European Constitution, are clearly acting an offensive. Nationalism, behind its new shapes, is arrogantly reappearing on the European stage. The international order, set up after World War II, is definitely in crisis. Calamities - such as poverty, endemic diseases, environmental degrade and war - threaten the future of humankind. Those who work against a federal Europe; against a European Constitution - basing itself on civil and social universal rights -; against a common government for both economy and foreign policy and against enlargement, consciously or not, reinforce the univocal globalisation process, which is reshaping our planet, in line with the need of few, but powerful, political and economical subjects. If this attempt results to be successful, no defensive tool will be any longer available to defend our social and civil rights system.

The quality of life of our people, the possibility of building a modern democracy and the opportunity for our continent to assume the role of peacemaker in a multi-polar world, are in danger.

The kind of Europe we need 

The PdCI and the MFE are calling all the democratic and progressive forces, all those who care about our countries’ destiny and the future of our community, to ask them to intensify, in this phase, their efforts to lead the Convention, the European institutions and the governments to accomplish, in the political immediacy, all the fundamental reforms, which have to be implemented as an absolute necessity.

We need a federal constitution, able to found the new Europe on peace, freedom and political and social equality.

The “European social model” represents a fundamental goal of the European civilization. The federal union has to be provided with enough power to guarantee a growth in the European economy, full employment and a public management of the social needs through a modern and efficient welfare system.

The European institutions need a re-organisation able to define the roles and the responsibilities of the different levels of government, through the application of the principle of subsidiarity.

The reforms have absolutely to overcome the “democratic shortfall” (which today affects all the institutions) giving the Commission the character of a true federal government, fully responsible towards a European Parliament with a reinforced role, as a representative of the European civil society. A European Council has to turn into a “Chamber of the States”, consequently losing any executive function (which, otherwise, would be subtracted to the European government and the parliamentary control).

We need a common economic and fiscal policy, able to strengthen the continental production system, in order to guarantee a development being socially and ecologically compatible and in solidarity with the developing countries.

We need a foreign and security European policy in order to make the federal union autonomous and able to speak by a unison voice to the rest of the world.

We must employ all the tools (majority-system vote, our own budget resources), which might favour a quick enlargement. A full inclusion of all the European countries and their people in the rights system, which is currently in force in the EU, is a priority.

This is all meant to prevent the accomplishment of a social dumping and the consequent abuses acted by those who speculate on it, by making workers, within and outside the community, concur on depreciation. These new rules need to be transformed into a new pact of European citizenship, able to stand beside its national homologous and to strengthen it. For these reasons, the Constitutional Chart, that will be issued by the Convention, should necessarily be voted, in a referendum, by all the European people, preventing, in this way, the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), where unanimous decisions are made, from any risk of failure in the building process.

Europe and the future world

The PdCI and the MFE believe that Europe, in this historical phase, is the most realistic and enthusiastic answer to the great turmoil and the questions, which concern our people. The cultural and political strength that the European people, all together, are able to express, can provide some solutions, able to make confidence prevail on fear, collective action on egocentrism. Europe, which political roots deepens in the struggles against Nazi-fascism, Europe which has already reached the historical task of healing the painful wounds the wars in the past times opened, this same Europe can be one of the main characters in the future, provided that it doesn’t deny itself.

The European political unity is essential for the achievement of a new world order, being founded on Peace, Equality, Freedom and Solidarity. The forces of renovation and progress must unite in order to build a future for both Europe and the world.

[1] Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (PdCI)[2] Movimento Federalista Europeo(MFE)