Joan Marc Simon

Responsable de Democracia Global, Barcelone - Membre du Comité fédéral de l’UEF Europe et du Conseil du WFM

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Un siège pour l’Union européenne au Conseil de sécurité

Dans un article initialement paru dans le n°155 de la revue Fédéchoses , Joan Marc Simon nous explique les enjeux européens et internationaux d’un siège de l’Union européenne à l’ONU. Il nous fait par des possibles réformes à court terme pour aller dans ce sens et analyse avant tout la structure (…)

jeudi 31 mai 2012

What hope is there for European democracy ?

The European Parliament (EP) has again decided to delay the vote on the creation of transnational lists - a single EU-wide constituency of 25 MEPs to be elected alongside national MEPs. The vote on the Duff Report was scheduled to take place Wednesday 14 March but EP group leaders have (…)

mercredi 21 mars 2012

The medicine that may end up killing the patient

A new international accord between the majority of the EU countries - a treaty on “Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union” - was born last night –Monday 30th January-. Presumably the bearers were 27 EU leaders but 2 of them refused, for the time-being, to adopt (…)

mardi 31 janvier 2012

An Assessment of Durban COP 17

Yet another Conference Of Parties (COP) finished in Durban in December 2011 with yet another decision to postpone action. Like in any European Council summit, after more than a fortnight of multilateral negotiations most national and regional delegations returned home and claimed victory in (…)

samedi 28 janvier 2012

How the EU could end up breaking what it was supposed to unite

Unless the macroeconomic diet imposed to southern countries it is complemented with fiscal transfers, it will asphyxiate economic recovery which in turn is going to break-up the already unstable countries. A new European Convention is necessary to build the new European fiscal Union. As new (…)

dimanche 27 novembre 2011

Global Democracy – from utopia to necessity

The US and the EU are going separate ways. And contrary to what it may seem, the room for political manoeuvre is smaller in the US than it is in the EU, despite the fact that the toolbox in the hands of the former is richer than the one in the hands of the latter. Indeed, the US has a federal (…)

mercredi 19 octobre 2011

Merkel, Sarkozy… fédéralistes malgré eux ?

Ce sont les crises qui conduisent à l’intégration européenne. Une fois de plus, celle-ci n’est pas poussée par l’ambition politique des pères fondateurs, mais par la nécessité. Nous vivons depuis Maastricht une époque d’intégration économique accélérée. Ces deux dernières années, l’UE a créé (…)

jeudi 8 septembre 2011

Merkel, Sarkozy...Time for the new Federalists ?

It is in times of crisis when the EU makes the biggest steps towards integration. Once again it is proven that the European integration is driven by necessity and not by intelectual curiosity. We are living the times of faster economic integration since the Maastricht treaty . During the last (…)

vendredi 19 août 2011

An EU seat in the security council as first step towards a democratic organisation of world security

Rise of world regionalism In a more long term and sustainable vision for the SC (Security Council) we should note a growing tendency to regional integration around the world. Oddly, it is in times in which the European integration project finds itself in its lowest popularity levels when one (…)

mercredi 29 juin 2011

An EU seat in the security council as first step towards a democratic organisation of world security

The reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) is one of the ever-pending issues of world governance. Set up in 1946 , by the winners of the WWII, the UNSC represents a world order that no longer exists - that of France, UK, US, China and Russia as world “gendarmes”. Although outdated and (…)

mardi 28 juin 2011

Federalism and the future of Spain (2nd part)

Spain is a Unitarian state like France and Italy. Its constitution defines it as “one and indivisible”. Since 1978 Spain has structured itself as Estado de las Autonomias, a state with 17 Autonomous Communities with an asymmetric decentralisation of competences. Nowadays Spain has to find a new (…)

jeudi 19 mai 2011

Federalism and the future of Spain (1st part)

Spain is a Unitarian state like France and Italy. Its constitution defines it as “one and indivisible”. Since 1978 Spain has structured itself as Estado de las Autonomias, a state with 17 Autonomous Communities with an asymmetric decentralisation of competences. Some Communities such as the (…)

mercredi 18 mai 2011
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