Research project: What institutions for the Union?

Since its inception, Notre Europe has been pondering the means of improving the EU's institutional structures in a federal spirit. Its most urgent mission is clearly institutional revival in the aftermath of the French and Dutch referendum rejection of the Constitutional Treaty. However, Notre Europe also takes an interest in the approach to the revision of the Treaties and the ways Member States' double unanimity principle can be overcome, in the Convention model and the means to preserve and improve it too. Finally in the longer term, Notre Europe continues to reflect on the project of a Federation of Nation States set forth by Jacques Delors and on the modalities of its implementation in an enlarged Europe.

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