Federal Europe

This article is about the speculative future scenario of European integration. For similar subjects, see Federalisation of the European Union, European values, and European integration. "United States of Europe" redirects here. For the Italian electoral list, see United States of Europe (electoral list).

European Union
Council of Europe
Schengen Area
  Schengen Area
  Schengen Area
(air and maritime borders only)
  Countries with open borders to the Schengen area
  Member of the EU committed by treaty to join the Schengen Area in the future
European Economic Area
  European Union (provisionally applied in Croatia)
  Iceland, Norway (without Svalbard) and Liechtenstein

A federal Europe, also referred to as the United States of Europe (USE), European State,[1][2] or a European federation, is a hypothetical scenario of European integration leading to the formation of a sovereign superstate (similar to the United States of America), organised as a federation of the member countries of the European Union (EU), as contemplated by political scientists, politicians, geographers, historians, futurologists and fiction writers. At present, while the EU is not a federation, various academic observers regard it as having some of the characteristics of a federal system.[3]

  1. ^ Jones, Eric (4 August 2003). The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-521-52783-5.
  2. ^ Phillips, D.; Ertl, Hubert (30 June 2003). Implementing European Union Education and Training Policy: A Comparative Study of Issues in Four Member States. Springer. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-4020-1292-1.
  3. ^ Kelemen, R Daniel (September 2005). "Built to Last? The durability of EU federalism" (PDF). In Meunier, Sophie; McNamara, Kate (eds.). Making History: State of the European Union. Vol. 8. (University of Oxford). Oxford University Press. p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2013.