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FAQ regarding the establishment of a
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

General questions

What is a parliamentary assembly?
What is so important about a UNPA?
Since publication of the strategy paper, what new aspects have come up?
Don’t we have enough bodies and bureaucracy already at the international level?
What are the preconditions of a world parliament? Isn’t the idea simply an utopia?
Following the principle of subsidiarity, government should be brought as near to the people as possible - and people should enjoy maximum freedom within the law to run their own lives. Would a global assembly really help to advance such freedom in any significant way?
Before we can elect an assembly for the world, the world should be willing to become a governable entity. Instead of moving in that direction, it is becoming more fragmented and polarized. Isn’t this obstructing the idea to set up a UNPA?
Doesn’t the Inter-Parliamentary Union already fulfill the function of a UNPA?
Are there any experiences to draw upon?
If the idea of a world parliament goes back to 1913 and earlier, why hasn’t it been realized since?
Wouldn’t international cooperation become even more complicated and ineffective if a UNPA would have a say?
Not all UN politics are to the good of the people - why then concentre on the UN at all?

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