Reply To: List of participating states

[Cristina Fasone]

I agree with the comments already made on the inclusion of the list of Member States in the Preamble.
I would advise not to list them for both a practical reason – (the need to have also the Preamble revised at every accession (or withdrawal? – and for a symbolic reason, notably to put the emphasis primairly on citizens rather than on the States (which are nevertheless already evoked in the denomination chose for the Union.
Hence, the opening clause of the Preamble could read like this: “We, the citizens of the United States of Europe”