The Federation of nation States … In his "lectio magistralis", which opened the academic year 2005-2006 at the European College of Parma, Jacques Delors listed the elements which are, in his opinion, necessary for the relaunch of Europe. Amongst other things, he defended a few partially novel ideas, or at least which are not universally shared, such as: a) the economic and monetary union should constitute the first incidence of "reinforced cooperation" between the countries of the euro...