Title: Europe Day: Why Europe Needs a Federal Leap
Several Italian news agencies and media outlets published my comment today on Europe Day and on the urgent need to rethink the institutional architecture of the European Union.
At a time of geopolitical instability, economic fragmentation and growing strategic competition, Europe cannot continue to act with slow decision-making mechanisms and fragmented political authority.
Title: Europe Day: Why Europe Needs a Federal Leap
Europe Day should not become a symbolic celebration detached from reality. It should be an opportunity to ask a fundamental question: is today’s European Union structurally prepared for the world that is emerging?
The answer is increasingly uncertain.
The last years have exposed Europe’s weaknesses with unprecedented clarity: energy dependency, fragmented foreign policy, slow crisis management, regulatory asymmetries, declining competitiveness and excessive political mediation between national interests.
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Europe remains an economic giant, but risks becoming politically marginal.
This is why the debate on a Federal Europe is no longer ideological or abstract. It is becoming a strategic necessity.
A stronger Europe requires institutional clarity and democratic legitimacy:
- full legislative power for the European Parliament;
- a European Commission with genuine executive powers and political accountability to Parliament;
- a President directly elected by European citizens;
- and a European Council focused primarily on coordination, consultation and institutional balance, rather than permanent veto dynamics.
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The current geopolitical environment no longer allows Europe to move with the logic of twenty-seven partially competing national agendas.
Security, trade, defence, industrial policy, energy and technological competitiveness increasingly require a European political actor capable not only of regulating, but also of deciding and acting.
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This should also be the moment for liberal, popular and reformist political forces, starting with Forza Italia and the broader European People’s Party tradition, to relaunch the federalist ambition that inspired the founding generation of the European project.
Europe does not need less integration.
It needs better integration, stronger democratic legitimacy and more political courage.
