With the issuance of joint debt to finance the 750,000 from the pandemic recovery fund, there was talk of a “European Hamiltonian moment”. The EU took a very important step, like Alexander Hamilton did during the founding of the United States, to advance in the fiscal union. If the coronavirus health crisis served to make visible to the public the usefulness of the European project with the purchase of vaccines, Putin’s catastrophic and unpredictable war has become the alarm clock we needed. There has been an awareness that we have to move quickly in the integration process, whose path and end have a name: federalism. The Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, addressed this Tuesday in the European Parliament a taboo subject: the need to reform the Treaties to definitively place ourselves on the path of “federalism”. With the pandemic and the war, the European institutions are having to make quick decisions in a very complicated geopolitical context. Despite the fact that the unity of the EU has surprised locals and foreigners, starting with Putin, if we really want to move forward we must suppress the principle of unanimity of the Twenty-seven and adapt the institutions.
Parallel, the European Parliament has approved the reform of the electoral law to create a single constituency in the entire Union. The purpose is for there to be a second transnational list, made up of 28 candidates, in which each political family (Liberals, Conservatives, Socialists, etc.) would present their own, which would be the same in all countries, with a head of the list that would become the candidate to preside over the EU. It would also impose the obligatory nature of zipper lists (joint) and the vote across the Union on May 9, Europe day. The approval of the European Council is lacking, that is, of the Governments, but if carried out it would be a knock so that in 2024 the European people, politically federal, will be born. Putin’s war has created the necessary conditions to make this leap in taxation, defense, etc. Let’s give it, and fast.