with the position first of this great man

Shortly after the Treaty of Nice in December 2000, a major French politician explained to the American Club of Paris that a Europe of fifteen was ungovernable and that an error had been committed. Three years later, the same man of State contributed to the drafting of a Constitution Bill which proposed to operate a Europe of twenty-five, became quite controllable. French voters were in agreement... with the position first of this great man.

Any business leader knows that a decision-making Executive Committee and which advance really is effective only with seven or eight members at most. This empirical process management applies directly in political matters. The only major well Federated States today are the United States, following the path of good sense of business leaders. This path is extremely simple.

As a first step, a small core (the thirteen States of origin for the United States) takes any time to get well agree to have clear rules of operation, balanced and accepted by all. This was the really hard part, between very different States. A historic compromise allowed to unite on a single text the centralists (Washington) and the "regionalists" (Jefferson).

The Jacobins massacred not the Girondins, and the result was a consensual Constitution, democratically ratified by each of the States. Neither arrogant nor monarchical spirit. This Constitution is marked by concern for the balance, the famous "checks and balances" later analyzed and praised by the very French Alexis de Tocqueville. It is a totally informal and democratic, elite close to its people, humble and relatively little applied.

This Constitution remains fundamentally unchanged after more than two centuries (how many plans and Constitutions the France, always hesitant between monarchy and anarchy, has known over the same period). It was, above all, the common set of a set that today has over thirteen but fifty States.

This extension of the Union of origin took place in a very simple way. Members of at the outset of the Economic Union, adhered to the political Union, known rules of all, the territories that, first, had wanted and, then, there were ready. No one has ever forced Ohio, Kansas and Illinois to join the Union. Simply, the population the wanted and accepted the rules. Of course, not matter for a new Member to negotiate its accession: taking the Constitution as it was, he accept the rules and are adapted. When the Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in the 20th century, they have joined with enthusiasm the Constitution drafted in the 18th century by the founding fathers.

This stain of oil, simple and democratic process is basically applicable to Europe if we take things in the correct order. A hard core is constituable, by taking the time to be agreement on the Constitution of starting, perhaps with the original Six, for example, the Spain and the Portugal. Those States of soul adhere only if and when they would really want. No question of losing his time and his soul by individual bargaining. No more "money back" or right of blocking for those who enjoy their nationalist joy found after the dark decades of the Soviet yoke.

It does naturally here that political Europe. Economic free trade and single market Europe can of course quickly include the 25 current members, the Turkey, the Ukraine, the Russia, or even the Kazakhstan and later still. In all cases, as in North America, economic assimilation is the prelude to political integration, which no one dares to dream that she is very fast.

In this process, the France must play a leading role, but not its role. The France is no longer the power of first place in the past. It is now the sixth world power, descendant of the fourth decade. The France has deliberately renounced his role of powerful leader in 1763 by abandoning the Canada and India and then in 1803 by selling half of the United States in the United States (not seeking to purchase only the port of New Orleans...). The France, already Jacobin, interventionist and self-confident, dropped the domination of the world to the "boutiquiers" despised by Napoleon.

"Shopkeepers", in fact the Liberals are today very well. The Americans have no chronic unemployment. They are in a situation of sur-emploi since they were twelve million illegal immigrants, who came to work hard and not to benefit from social protection. The State and the States make their trade, and that their trade, business leaders make their. The United States creates more than 200,000 jobs a month.

A respectful and pragmatic France will naturally be the heart of Europe. It must abandon its top talk and habits of intolerance (what another country has voluntarily expelled its elites with the revocation of the edict of Nantes and killed its own citizens in Vendée). Boston journalist (John Adams), the former apprentice printer (Benjamin Franklin), English soldier and United States (George Washington), planter (Thomas Jefferson) and their companions were dedicated to good people, pragmatic, and attentive to dialogue. They defended no privilege. They are not infallible under the Jacobin training and command sometimes provided in France. They succeeded with surprisingly modern methods and they show us the path to Europe. This path is simple. Just want to, of really wanting to.