European Union leaders are proposing new measures to deepen regional integration on the road to becoming a full-fledged federal state.
On February 11, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced the “One Europe, One Market” initiative, which aims to impose full market integration in all economic sectors. At the EU leaders’ summit held the following day in Belgium, Eurocrats endorsed implementing this initiative by the end of 2027, and von der Leyen is expected to unveil an “EU-wide, single legal framework” on March 18.
Previous Calls for Integration
This proposal has been years in the making. For example, former Italian prime ministers Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta, at the request of the European Commission, published reports in 2024 calling for deeper EU integration.
As we reported in the October 31, 2025 “Insider Report,” Draghi, a Bilderberg Group member who also served as president of the European Central Bank, has called for “a new pragmatic federalism” — consistent with his previous calls for a full-fledged federal European superstate — that would require EU member nations to give up their veto power.
Meanwhile, Letta is advocating for the EU to pass the “One Market Act,” which would implement von der Leyen’s “One Europe, One Market” proposal. In an op-ed published in Politico on February 26, Letta argued:
In a world reshaped by Trump and by the accelerating logic of geopolitical competition, Europe needs an answer that is both realistic and ambitious. The strongest response the EU can offer is to complete the single market….
In the areas that matter most, we still do not have one market. We have the sum of 27 national markets.
This fragmentation is not a technical flaw. It is a political and strategic weakness….
This is why we need a bold political commitment to strengthen and complete the single market. We need an agreement that creates a fast track for the steps required to complete it, endorsed by the presidents of the EU institutions. It should have a name that matches its ambition: the One Market Act.
In 1992, Europe moved from a common market to a single market. Now we need the next step: one market.
Multiple EU member states openly support Draghi’s and Letta’s proposals, As we reported in the February 6 “Insider Report,” European national leaders are working on their own initiatives to promote and implement the same goals.
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