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For Europe Paperback – 20 Sep 2012

by Guy Verhofstadt (Author), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Contributor)
3.3 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (20 Sept. 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1479261882
  • ISBN-13: 978-1479261888
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 1 x 20.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 813,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsA Federalist call to arms
By David Melamedoff on 9 Oct. 2012
Format: Paperback
The authors, usually regarded as political opponents, are here united to argue that the European project has stalled and must be pushed through to its Federal conclusion. The first part of the book is a political pamphlet, in the second they answer questions from a favourably inclined journalist.
As Belgian Prime Minister for nine years, Guy Verhofstadt was directly involved in the inter-governmental debates behind the launch of the Euro, as well as in the preparation of the EU treaties of Nice and of Lisbon. He is currently President of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, perhaps better known on the Continent than in Britain, was a student leader during the Paris riots of 1968 when he acquired the nickname `Danny the Red'. He is now co-President of the Greens, also in the European Parliament.
They argue that whereas the creation of the Euro was necessary to stop repeated competitive devaluation and debilitating currency speculation, it was deeply flawed by not being accompanied by a common economic policy. This, they say, is because Euro Zone governments lacked the courage and energy to transfer further sovereignty to a supra-national body.
A large part of the pamphlet considers and strongly attacks the reasons for this lack of courage. Governments, it says, are clinging to outdated notions of national sovereignty. They tacitly encourage those who believe that individual nation states are better able to protect social and environmental standards than the EU. The authors point out that separately, Europe's nation states are no longer able to face the world's new trading blocs. In 25 years, none of them will be large enough to belong to the G8.
However, the financial crisis has revealed the fundamental weakness of the Euro Zone.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPax Europea
By Ronny on 13 Oct. 2012
Format: Paperback
The authors present a passionate call for Europe and deepening of European unification. It is a refreshing text in the current climate of crisis and and refrains of populist calls for re-nationalization. The achievements of peace and a certain weight in the world order are stressed, amongst others. In its on call it draws on e.g. Kennedy prompting not to ask what Europe can do for you but what you can do for Europe. Yet in terms of its audience, it does not pick up commoners presently lost to populists for the European cause. It seems to adress a political elite that on a national level in some cases has become indifferent to Europe with a mindset largely around national interests and rational local political choices (Merkel). It can be hoped that the call resounds with future visionary Delors who once again would return to constructing Europe with a humanist touch. Also, the text shows that mixing the addressing the massive problem of state debt with that of charismatically developing the union towards a call for the United States of Europe does not match: pursuing them on separate tracks might be sensible.

Overall, while a little bit exhaustive for a manifesto, it is a beautiful work and a good read.
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1.0 out of 5 starsIt's logic,Captain, but not as we know it.
By Joseph Gallacher on 20 Dec. 2012
Format: Paperback
This little book screams its lack of thought from the first page. Wild claims (emerging economies are overtaking us) are followed by non sequeturs and straw men are rebutted. Not only logic but grammar is abandoned. Europe does not benefit from demagoguery of this kind.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Why the Eurozone is doomed 26 Nov. 2012
By Giles Conway-Gordon - Published on Amazon.com
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An excellent example of the vacuous, unrealistic, anti-democratic wishful thinking which is accepted as serious comment in the European Union, by two senior players who should know better.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Federalism is what Europe might need right now 5 Nov. 2013
By Andrea - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
This book provides a compelling argument for more European integration and for a federalist overhaul of the existing arrangements of the European Union. The Manifesto is politically unbiased, while Jean Quatremer shows his usual deep understanding of the 'behind-the-scene' politics of the EU and engage the two authors in an elegant, pedagogic conversation. You don't have to be pro-European to read it: you only need a good dose of intellectual honesty.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A flawed defense of federalism 28 Dec. 2012
By G.Doctorow - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
This little book is built around a Manifesto calling for the conversion of the European Union's bureaucratic institutions into into a democratically elected government answerable to the peoples of the Old Continent, a sort of United States of Europe. Following a referendum over a Constitution establishing the new Union, the current Member States which choose to join would cede to the Union most of their sovereignty, including taxation powers. It would have its own armed forces and diplomatic corps at its disposal. It would determine economic, fiscal, social and foreign policy.

This revolution is urged upon Europe as the only way to save the euro from its unending crisis. A currency which is not backed by a state is finally not viable, they tell us. Should the euro zone unravel, the European Union itself would unravel, doing great damage to the prosperity and security of the peoples of Europe.

Their cause may be worthy, but the authors commit a number of errors in logic and tactics which undermine the chances of the federal Union coming any time soon, as I detail in

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The book came out in several language editions across Europe and the authors have taken it on a road show. To date it appears the largest and most significant presentation/discussion was in Brussels itself. So far the initiative has been limited to the elites who are themselves the source of Europe's malaise and inability to combat the crisis. We must ask when the authors will move beyond book signings to the kind of political mobilization that can bring about change.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Just say No 5 July 2013
By Ulfilas - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
More fabian socialist rubbish. The very idea of the EU is based on coercion, force, and confiscation of private property.
Where have we heard these before? Will be looked back upon as a truly awful idea from the 20th century.
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