Federal European State. The Future or Utopia? - Good Times Bad Times

"The European Treaties are not carved in stone" announced in August 2022 Olaf Scholz in Prague. Five years before that, at the Sorbonne in Paris, Emmanuel Macron had declared: "We cannot talk about a Europe of Nations all the time". Historically, the Franco-German convergence of interests towards a single European state was not so apparent; on the contrary, it was the product of a constantly shifting balance of power. But the current architecture of the global and European systems means that for the first time in history, Berlin and Paris, Europe's two most powerful centers of power, are speaking with one voice: Europe should move towards a superstate.

To examine the concept of the European federal state and to understand the full dynamics of relations within the European Union, we need to take a longer journey in the past.

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It is a long video, but this content provider does an excellent job explaining the background and evaluating various proposals for those who are interested in European political topics.