United States of Europe

Mr. Monti gave a simple reason for moving toward what many are calling a "United States of Europe": National governments may well have popular mandates, but they have been shamefully shortsighted and largely responsible for the continent's fiscal and debt crisis.

Italy's Leader Warns EU Needs Better Democracy Christopher Emsden 2012

This treaty goes a long way towards creating a 'United States of Europe' - with its own President, its own Foreign Minister and its own Bill of Rights.

EU Referendum Please Mr Brown Glyn Davies 2007

This treaty goes a long way towards creating a 'United States of Europe' - with its own President, its own Foreign Minister and its own Bill of Rights.

Archive 2007-07-01 Glyn Davies 2007

1851 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times.

Nothingandall looking4good 2010

A coalition of nations was formed under a single general government, known as the United States of Europe, which in coöperation with the

The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910

Where the thought that one day we could become the United States of Europe is a dream for some, it is a nightmare for others.

Times Record News Stories 2010

But what had started as a regional customs union founded by France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and West Germany in 1957 has been transformed since then into a political and economic confederation of 27 member-states with more than 500 million citizens - the so-called United States of Europe -- with its own flag and anthem, and since 2002, a currency (euro) as well as a parliament and a huge government bureaucracy in Brussels that oversee a massive economic powerhouse that generates an estimated 28 percent share of the nominal gross world product.

Leon T. Hadar: Multipolarism sans the EU Pole? The Geopolitics of Europe's Economic Mess 2010

But what had started as a regional customs union founded by France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and West Germany in 1957 has been transformed since then into a political and economic confederation of 27 member-states with more than 500 million citizens - the so-called United States of Europe -- with its own flag and anthem, and since 2002, a currency (euro) as well as a parliament and a huge government bureaucracy in Brussels that oversee a massive economic powerhouse that generates an estimated 28 percent share of the nominal gross world product.

Leon T. Hadar: Multipolarism sans the EU Pole? The Geopolitics of Europe's Economic Mess 2010

Such a "United States of Europe" has long been the dream of European federalists.

In Defense of Europe 2010

More than a decade after the advent of the euro — and nearly two decades after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in February 1992 — the European Union isn't that much closer to becoming the "United States of Europe" than it was at the start.

Neville Chamberlain Lives—In Euroland 2010