Federal Europe

This article is about the speculative future scenario of European integration. For similar subjects, see Federalisation of the European Union, European values, and European integration. "United States of Europe" redirects here. For the Italian electoral list, see United States of Europe (electoral list).

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A federal Europe, also referred to as the United States of Europe (USE) or a European federation, is a hypothetical scenario of European integration leading to the formation of a sovereign superstate (similar to the United States), organised as a federation of the member countries of the European Union (EU), as contemplated by political scientists, politicians, geographers, historians, futurologists and fiction writers. At present, while the EU is not officially a federation or even a confederation, most contemporary scholars of federalism view the EU as a federal system, a supranational union, which has a flexible (see right to secession, Article 50 and Brexit) membership and competence delegation.

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