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Should the EU become a confederation?
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Why can Europe not adopt a confederal political system, flexible and central, as in Switzerland?
Pascal Delwit, political science professor at the Free University of Brussels, responds:
Confederalism in general is transitory. Looking at Switzerland, although it is called the Helvetic Confederation, it is a federal state.
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