Despite the United Kingdom having voted to leave in 2016, as well as increasing difficulties with eurosceptic governments in Central Europe, globalists have not given up their dream of smashing Europe’s ancient nation-states together into a U.S.-style federation, with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) renewing the case on Tuesday.
An article penned for the organization by Razvan Nicolescu, a former Romanian government minister who now works for Deloitte, insists the solution to the issues presented by an increasingly multipolar world is “quickening the pace of the European integration process… to build a United States of Europe”.
Nicolescu’s chief complaint is that as things stand, national governments can “abuse their veto power” by refusing certain contentious policies – such as migrant redistribution – and he argues greater centralization (and less national sovereignty) is required to ensure “effective leadership”.
“A United States of Europe will be able to implement a serious concrete plan for the rapid and full integration of Western Balkans countries, Ukraine, Moldova, and Turkey,” the article boasts, describing a state which would extend from the Azores in the mid-Atlantic to the borders of Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
“The new project should be left open for the United Kingdom to join; indeed, a United States of Europe was advocated by none other than Winston Churchill in 1946,” it adds.