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Fundamentalist values are first of all
that value of a human being.
I think the European federalists are people who have
a clear feeling what is needed for the future.
It's about being different,
but trying to work together.
One of the richest in the UEF Congresses
is that you have a sort of an
intergenerational debate. You got people, who have been around for, I don't know, fifty years,
and then you got people, who just started.
I live Europe and I find that so fantastic
that I wish that many more people were able to cross borders
study abroad
work and live in another European country.
I think there has been a revival of interest in federalism
That's not all because of us, of course,
but it is
an illustration that the
solutions, which have been
reached by the Council
and by the Commission
which is very, very
opportunistic at the moment
with an absence of strategy, perspective,
that federal thought is badly needed.
The federalist movement is an avant-garde movement
and an avant-garde never has a majority of people behind it.
It's not easy to be a young federalist, because many young people
don't get the idea of what is the federal Europe standing for.
The European Council is very weak,
without real means in order to achieve the goals that should be achieved.
On airports, in trading, in selling, cross-border enforcement
- that's so many issues that you
can not say that we are even close to what we want,
like the real european people proving a European government.
We already see emerging of nationalism
everywhere in Europe
and it is a challenge to resist that and to convince our fellow citizens that
we can only win together or lose together.
We will have to fight
against nationalism and populism
and to defend more positive
and open approach of Europe.
If we hadn't the federalists we would forget
about this ultimate goal that we have to follow.
We need to go outside, go on the streets
in order to transport out ideas and thoughts.
We are an organisation of militants.
Altiero Spinelli, one of our founding fathers, who was also part of the European Parliament,
writing the constitution, a manifesto also.
He is so one of those who said:
"If you want to changed the system
we cannot negotiate with them
who are in the system and profiting of it. They only will do this
and step forward in that direction if the pressure comes from the people".
You can see that the people are enjoying themselves
and are being truly companionable
in the federalist club.