Europe: Multinational Federal State

Authors

  • Constantin MANOLACHE Petre Andrei University of Iasi

Keywords:

Multinational Federal State of Europe, Single European State Identity, politics, leadership, management, history, ideology.

Abstract

The founding of the Multinational Federal State of Europe could be the greatest geopolitical achievement of the 21st century. The arguments of this assertion are in favor of the founding of a single European state entity, a process that would bring Europe out of a state of political and geographical interim, giving it a new architecture with features of legitimacy, uniqueness and originality. In this way, Europe would have its own identity and would be politically and legally recognized internationally. Europe's identity reconstruction as Multinational Federal State would fit into the fundamental elements of this creation: New Constitution; efficient European political institutions; modern European administration; new European capital in a central-continental geographical location; own military technology complex; signs and symbols of European state identity recognition. This article intends to analyze in a constructive spirit ten themes (challenges) of the construction of the Multinational Federal State of Europe, such as: politics, leadership, management, sovereignty, legal, historical, ideological, development strategies, communication, military.

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Published

2019-12-21

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MANOLACHE, C. (2019). Europe: Multinational Federal State. Anuarul Universitatii "Petre Andrei" Din Iasi - Fascicula: Drept, Stiinte Economice, Stiinte Politice, 24, 107-135. Retrieved from https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/upa-sw/article/view/2650