The Federal Committee meeting, which took place in hybrid format on Saturday 21 October, confirmed the new positions appointed by the Executive Bureau to fill the roles of President, Treasurer, and Secretary-General: Domènec Ruiz Devesa was thus confirmed as President, Roland Hühn as Treasurer, and Luisa Trumellini, already Vice President, acting Secretary-General.
 

The Federal Committee meeting was also an important opportunity to present the political and administrative work in progress and to take stock of the financial situation (both the 2022 balance sheet with the external auditor's report and that of the two internal auditors were approved; and also the 2023 budget after revision). The documents are being uploaded to the new website, which was also presented to the FC and is now available to the sections, members of the UEF statutory bodies, activists, and the outside world.

In the coming weeks, all sections will be contacted to be updated on the site and its new tools. The new website remains in the construction phase. The old website is still accessible here until all contents are transferred.

Here you can find the resolution adopted unanimously (with one abstention). This text clearly indicates UEF's support for the AFCO report and the call for the launch of a Convention to reform the Treaties, but also recognises the need, should this attempt fail, to try to push the European Parliament to take a constituent initiative on its own.

Giulia Rossollilo, rapporteur of the UEF's Political Commission on Institutional Affairs and moderator of this weekend's political debate, prepared a summary of the exchange with MEPs Domènec Ruiz Devesa, Markus Ferber, Daniel Freund, and Alin Mituța.
 

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Precisely in view of the 21 or 22 November plenary vote on the AFCO report, after the debate and the various presentations, President Domènec Ruiz Devesa, in closing the proceedings, urged the national sections to mobilise in an extraordinary effort to make their support for the birth of a more federal Europe felt from below. The proposal is to organise in some major European cities a series of simultaneous initiatives in the streets, or involving local politicians, citizens, etc, to explain the urgency of strengthening Europe and thus the importance of the European Parliament's initiative to change the treaties.