by European Movement Italy | 30 March 2026 | Members' Corner
The Heads of State and government of the 27 members of the European Union, together with the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, parted ways outside the Justus Lipsius Building on the...
by European Movement Italy | 23 February 2026 | Members' Corner
by Pier Virgilio Dastoli, European Movement Italy In recent days, the European Union, its institutions and its members have moved, but imperceptibly, because – beyond declarations of principle such as the speeches by Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron in Munich...
by European Movement Italy | 29 January 2026 | Members' Corner
According to Chinese constitutionalists, one of the causes of instability in the European political system is linked to the proliferation of local, regional, national and European elections, the results of which often change the balance of power at the state level or,...
by European Movement Italy | 21 November 2025 | Members' Corner
On November 21, 2025, the European Commission announced that it had opened infringement proceedings against the government led by Robert Fico for the constitutional amendments adopted on September 26 with 90 votes out of 150 members by the Slovak Parliament on the...
by European Movement Italy | 30 October 2025 | Members' Corner
In most countries around the world, a financial planning tool has been in place for over forty years in the form of multi-year budgets which, according to Richard Musgrave’s theoretical model for allocative, redistributive and stabilisation functions, should aim...
by European Movement Italy | 29 September 2025 | Members' Corner
In last year’s report on competitiveness, Mario Draghi reminded us that the ECB had estimated that Europe’s investment needs amounted to €800 billion per year to stimulate growth, reduce dependencies and achieve the twin environmental and digital...
by European Movement Italy | 07 July 2025 | Members' Corner
The European Council of 27 June 2024 had invited the European Commission to present by spring 2025 an EU reform plan before the new accessions containing four operational pillars: The rule of law European policies to ensure competitiveness, prosperity, global...
by European Movement Italy | 26 May 2025 | Members' Corner
On 21 May, the third meeting between the EU foreign ministers coordinated by the High Representative for EU Foreign Policy and the foreign Ministers of the African Union coordinated by the Minister of Angola takes place in Brussels in preparation for the sixth EU-AU...
by European Movement Italy | 05 May 2025 | Members' Corner
On the role of the European Union as an international actor, much has been written even recently where the (apparent) economic strength, the unquestionable political weakness and the dramatic military inconsistency have most often been emphasised, as Mario Draghi,...
by European Movement Italy | 25 March 2025 | Members' Corner
There is much, and perhaps too much, enthusiasm in the now variegated network of pro-Europeans that has spilled over from the ‘Ursula majority’ by embarking a part of conservatives and reformists and even a few federalists on Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to...
