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Is the EU a federal state? The main objectives of this paper are three: trace out the differences between federalists and intergovernmentalist in the building of the Union; find out, by looking at other federations, what makes a state federal, and then conclude whether the EU is presently, or moving towards to, a federal state. Federation - the ultimate peace treaty Proposals for a federalist unification of Europe came already in the 18th century. For Immanuel Kant, the federation was a means of achieving a perpetual peace. He saw the solution to trouble not in treaties but in a federation of peoples. Treaties were meant to be discarded. This federation, he argued has no aim to acquire any power like that of a state, but merely to preserve and sevure the freedom of each state in itself. This is, I think what brought the first efforts towards European Integration in the post-war period....

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