The Confederal Europe project provides a coherent foundation for a new EU institutional settlement, consistent with EU s shared Christian heritage and the vision of the Treaty of Rome, and supporting the principles of conferral, subsidiarity, and coordinated policies. The project builds on a foundation of Relational Thinking first established by Michael Schluter and David Lee in 1993. This holds that the key element in any political, economic or social system is the quality of the relationships that hold it together. Across the EU, these are largely overlooked. In particular, the relationships embedded in institutions, which dictate the terms on which large international stakeholder groups (investors, savers, employees, boards of directors, voters, governments) relate to one another, are often set up in such a way as to allow or even stimulate irresponsibility, disconnection, injustice, conflict and abuse. This publication follows the concept as described in the previous publication: A relational Plan for Europe . Confederal Europe: Strong Nations, Strong Union (ISBN: 978-94-92697-00-4) is available in the Sallux Publishing Bookstore. Confederal Europe Platform To make this alternative known to the people of Europe we created the Confederal Europe Platform, multi-lingual website with information, events, downloads about Confederal Europe in many different languages. www.confederal-europe.eu