{"id":1946,"date":"2025-03-25T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/press-release\/why-we-need-the-united-states-of-europe-now\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:04:06","slug":"why-we-need-the-united-states-of-europe-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/statement\/why-we-need-the-united-states-of-europe-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need the United States of Europe – now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe believe that Europe only can stay strong and find its place on the world stage if it dares to change. But many governments in the EU are reluctant to innovate and change the EU treaties. This is why the Volt Delegation in the European Parliament has come up with a 9 point action plan for Europe. Here\u2019s what we believe has to happen now. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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EU RESPONSE TO A CHANGING WORLD ORDER: A 9-POINT ACTION PLAN<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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01 United Decisions.<\/strong> Abolish the veto and enable common decisions through qualified majorities to avoid a Hungary 2.0

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02 EU Foreign Minister.<\/strong> Empower Kaja Kallas to negotiate foreign policy and impose sanctions on behalf of countries via an intergovernmental accord.

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03 Treaty Change Now. <\/strong>Conduct a targeted revision of the treaties to add defense. Open a holistic Treaty Convention to prepare for enlargement. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MILITARY RESILIENCE<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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04 Debt for Defense.<\/strong> Issue EU debt for joint, multi-annual procurement, establish a European DARPA and specialized regional industrial clusters.<\/p>


05 Victory for Ukraine.<\/strong> Use the EUR 200bn+ of frozen Russian assets for Ukrainian defense and prepare European security guarantees i.e., sky shield and boots on the ground.

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06 European Army.<\/strong> Develop an independent European Command and Control Center, create European strategic enablers, and build the legal basis for a European military force.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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ECONOMIC RESILIENCE<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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07 Radical Harmonization.<\/strong> Remove barriers for companies to scale within the EU via a fast-track review of relevant laws and wide use of the 28th regime.<\/p>


08 Compact of the Willing.<\/strong> Strengthen trade, technology and defense cooperation via a formalized coalition with like-minded partners such as UK, Norway, Canada, and Japan.<\/p>

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09 European Tech Stack.<\/strong> Invest in EU infrastructure in AI, data, and cloud storage. Ring-fence debates and elections via enhanced and enforced social media regulation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If we want to fix the EU, we have to start acting. Here\u2019s 9 points for the future of Europe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}