Several members of the European Parliament's Socialist Group launched a draft manifesto for a "new federalism", in Brussels this week, as contribution both to the Congress of the Party of European Socialists, in Berlin on 7 and 8 May, and to the wide-ranging public debate that is to open on the future of Europe, as provided for in the Declaration of Nice (see EUROPE of 24 February, p.6, and 28 February, p.6). At this stage, some fifty members from all countries - except Denmark, Finland and...