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Focuses on the issues related to the political integration of Europe into a federal state. Provisions of the proposed European constitution; Countries in the European Union that rejected the proposed constitution; Reason behind the decision of Eastern countries in the European Union to support Euro-federalism.

The article discusses the raison d'etre behind the European Union. It notes that the Union was born from the horrors of the world wars and the terror of the Cold War. It indicates that western European powers achieved its goal of economic and military co-operation to eliminate the possibility of serious conflict among them again. It suggests that for a real raison d'etre, Europe must formally support traditional Judeo-Christian values, a democratic government and free enterprise economy.