The San Francisco Promise, Ukraine, and UN’s irrelevance
by Leo Klinkers & Mauro Casarotto | The founding of the United Nations As the Second World War drew to a close, representatives of eighty countries met in San Francisco…
What caused EU’s geopolitical irrelevance in the Ukrainian drama?
This article is a continuation of a discourse between Leo Klinkers and Ingo Piepers in Europe Today Magazine, titled ‘The European State System at a Crossroads’. by Leo Klinkers,…
The European State System at a Crossroads
by Leo Klinkers | A discourse between Dr Leo Klinkers, President Federal Alliance of European Federalists (FAEF) and Dr Ingo Piepers, Commander Dutch contribution to the UN Rapid Reaction Force…
Olaf Scholz, Stellvertreter der Bundeskanzlerin und Bundesminister der Finanzen, Kanzlerkandidat der SPD vor der Sendung; Porträt, Einzelbild
New German Government should schedule a popular vote for a European Federal Constitution
by Leo Klinkers | December, 8th, 2021 Today is the inaugural day of Olaf Scholz as German Chancellor. On this important day, the Federal Alliance of European Federalists (…
Who is the judicial boss in the EU? The European Court of Justice or the highest courts in the Member States?
Will a legal power struggle lead to the end of the EU? by Leo Klinkers | In April 2021, the Institute for International and Comparative Public Law of the University…
The right of veto as a hand grenade in the European Council
By Leo Klinkers | The European Council of 27 heads of state and government takes decisions by consensus. If one or more members do not support a decision because it…
What the Trump experience demonstrates to Europe in terms of federal state construction
by Leo Klinkers and Mauro Casarotto | The question we want to answer with this article is whether the USA federal Constitution can be taken as a model for a…
Foundations of Political Office
by Leo Klinkers | Global Economic Panel April 1989 On 11 and 12 April 1989, the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam again hosted the Global Economic Panel led by the then…
The perverse impact of operating with treaties
By Leo Klinkers | EU politicians don’t know the difference between an undemocratic intergovernmental treaty and a democratic federal constitution. The lack of knowledge is amoral, the result is immoral…
Fighting the identity crisis of federalism in Europe
A reexamination of basic federalist elements to prevent the EU collapsing by Leo Klinkers | Introduction The European Union wants to give a EUR 750 million Recovery Fund to EU…