| France and the UK want a confederal Europe, with states retaining power and Europe run by the Council of Europe, made up of the Prime Ministers of the member states. |
| Others are confederal or consociational, explicitly preserving in legal form some social identities within themselves. |
| Some would say loose-knit states, such as Canada or Switzerland, mostly confederal in character. |
| Federal, quasifederal, and confederal constitutions aren't perfect by any means, and there are plenty of bad precedents to point to in constructing an argument against them. |
| On the whole, as Defranceschi explains, Paoli's idea of union was of a federal or rather confederal kind. |
| He concludes by recommending the establishment of federal or confederal representative governments as a means of maintaining some degree of democracy. |
