Council on the Future of Europe

Council for the Future of Europe is a think tank, established in September 2011, initiated and supported by the Nicolas Berggruen Institute as one of its projects, in its manifesto calling for a political union of Europe:

...It will be necessary to further lay out a vision of a federation that goes beyond a fiscal and economic mandate to include a common security, energy, climate, immigration and foreign policy as well as develop a common narrative about the future of the union and its place in the world...
...Nation states will need to share certain dimensions of sovereignty to a central European entity that would have the capacity to source revenue at the federal level in order to provide European-wide public goods...

It aims to:

recommend a way forward and then lobby for that course at the European Commission, the Council and Parliament as well as with the leaders of individual members states...

External links

• Future of Europe Mission Statement | Nicolas Berggruen Institute, at berggruen.org, Europe is the Solution, Not the Problem, by Council for the Future of Europe / Nicolas Berggruen Institute, 6 September 2011
• Statement by the Council for the Future of Europe: Europe is the Solution, Not the Problem, by Council for the Future of Europe / Nicolas Berggruen Institute, 5 September 2011 (PDF)