UNPA Campaign
June/July 2017: Comments by Andreas Bummel on the European Parliament’s call for a UN debate on a UN Parliamentary Assembly, on UNA-Germany’s renewed support, at a workshop on the occasion of the G20 summit, and at an event at the parliament of the Netherlands.
IPS News
The UN Needs to Bring Parliamentarians on Board, opinion piece by Andreas Bummel for IPS News, April 28, 2017. Also published at The Wire and South-South News.
Democracy Without Borders
The World’s Citizens need to take back control – with a Global Parliament, blog post by Andreas Bummel, March 20, 2017, originally published at www.foederalist.eu and www.opendemocracy.net.
Great Transition Initiative
Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly, piece written by Andreas Bummel for the Great Transition Initiative, August 2016, also published by OpenDemocracy, The World State Debate and The Federalist Debate.
KDUN
The Federalist Principle in the Catholic Social Doctrine and the Question of a World Parliament (PDF) by Maja Brauer and Andreas Bummel, Comittee for a Democratic U.N., January 2016
The World State Debate
Step By Step: Andreas Bummel on the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. Interview with Luis Cabrera, World Government Research Network, September 15, 2015.
Foreign Policy in Focus
Want a More Democratic UN? Give It a Parliament – Every democracy in the world has an elected legislature. Why not the United Nations? Opinion piece with Jo Leinen, also published by Counterpunch and Arab News.
Cadmus Journal
A World Parliament and the Transition from International Law to World Law, Cadmus Journal, Vol. 2, no. 3, October 2014.
OpenDemocracy
The failure of the UN: rebuilding from the ruins, piece by Andreas Bummel on the inaction of the UN in Syria and the world organization’s dysfunctional structure, September 1, 2014.
CIVICUS
Bringing Citizens to the Core: The Case for a UN Parliamentary Assembly (PDF), piece published in The State of Civil Society Report 2014: Reimagining Global Governance, 2014.