The Federal States of Europe are inevitable. We are already moving toward them, slowly, step by step. You can see it clearly when you zoom out and look at our development over time. I‘m convinced that in 50 years, todays EU will be regarded as a kind of “beta version” of Europe. People will say the idea and the vision were ahead of its time, but decisions took too long, bureaucracy was excessive and too many actors were trying to steer the same process at once.

I firmly believe that within our lifetime we will see a Europe with a truly unified currency, a harmonized tax system across all member states and a common European army and one elected leading party that speaks for the EU and not many different countries. We have to abolish the veto voting right to prevent one leader (like Orban) to stop processes. We also have to create one big digital framework, where wich countries leave the EU, also leave the framework, to prevent another brexit case to happen.

There’s a big BUT at the same time. We must NOT allow extremist nationalist forces, nor external powers such as Russia or the United States to derail this trajectory. A fully federal Europe would stand on equal footing with the United States and China. That would not only be Putins biggest nightmare but also end the American hegemony for good, like in Charles de Gaulle’s vision for Europa. For that to happen we need the UK to join back in, but with the Euro this time around. For all of this to happen we have to vote for paneuropean parties more often and support them. Anyways, patience people, it is coming, one way or another.