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Ideas of European unity before 1948

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America to help them establish a federal system, to federate. This alone could secure for them the two major assets of national life: first, political and military security, and, second, economic prosperity. Hungary, he emphasized, stood ready to join in such collaboration, provided it was firmly based on the complete equality of all the members states.
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for European Cooperation, and a further twenty countries set up equivalent committees. However, it remained an elite venture: the largest committee, the French one, possessed fewer than six-hundred members, two-thirds of whom were parliamentarians. Two centre-left French prime ministers went further. In 1929
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He foresaw clearly the complete defeat of Nazi Germany, and the European chaos that would result from the war. He believed that no future was conceivable for any of the minor nations in Central and Eastern Europe if they tried to continue to live their isolated national lives. He asked his friends in
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stated "That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe". The French
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organised by Mazzini, held in Paris in 1849. Hugo favoured the creation of "a supreme, sovereign senate, which will be to Europe what parliament is to England" and said: "A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood ... A day will come when we shall see ... the
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Among liberal-democratic parties, the French centre-left undertook several initiatives to group like-minded parties from the European states. In 1927, the French politician Emil Borel, a leader of the centre-left Radical Party and the founder of the Radical International, set up a French Committee
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in 1941 supported the statement of others. "I took from Count Teleki's office a monograph which he had written upon the structure of European nations. A distinguished geographer, he was developing a plan for regional federation, based upon geographical and economic realities." Teleki received no
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later became increasingly degenerated due to their underlying principle of German national hegemony, a process culminating in the abhorrent vision laid out by the national socialists of European unity understood as universal servitude of the European nations to the Germans
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on the continent. The proposal, which attracted little support from the Nazi leadership, would have had a single currency, a central bank in Berlin, a regional principle, a labour policy and economic and trading agreements, but left all states clearly subordinated to
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against any of the pair. The rationale for the treaty was the threat of a potential future military attack, specifically a Soviet one in practice, though publicised under the disguise of a German one, according to the official statements. Immediately following the
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was launched in November 1938, and began advocating a Federal Union of Europe as a post-war aim. Its papers and arguments became well known among resistants to fascism across Europe and contributed to their thinking of how to rebuild Europe after the war.
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Support for the proposals by the French centre-left came from a range of prestigious figures. Many eminent economists, aware that the economic race-to-the-bottom between states was creating ever greater instability, supported the view: these included
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Assembly in which he proposed the idea of a federation of European nations based on solidarity and in the pursuit of economic prosperity and political and social co-operation. In 1930, at the League's request, Briand presented a
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called for the creation of a federation of European republics. This set the stage for perhaps the best known early proposal for peaceful unification, through cooperation and equality of membership, made in 1847 by the
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said that France had to "abandon nationalism and take place in the European community with honour". These pan-European illusions from the early 1940s were never realised because of Germany's defeat. Neither
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remembered a widespread mood after 1924 calling for a "harmonisation of national interests along the lines of European union, for the purpose of common prosperity". The Spanish philosopher and politician,
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United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas." He was laughed out of the hall, but returned to his idea again in 1851. Hugo planted an
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of 1940. Externally, he was striving to preserve his country's military and economic independence in the face of Germany's coercive pressure to join in their invasion of Yugoslavia. In the book,
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Many of the pan-European social democratic and liberal politicians that lost influence in the 1930s would rise to prominence once again after the end of World War II in the 1940s and 1950s.
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argued, in 1849, that "A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas."
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response from the Americans to his ideas and when German troops moved through Hungary on 2–3 April 1941 during the invasion of Yugoslavia, he committed suicide.
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Louis C. Cornish described how Teleki, under constant surveillance by the German Gestapo during 1941, sent a secret communication to contacts in America.
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will represent, even without Russia, a power strong enough to advance, up to a satisfactory point, the prosperity of the other continents as well".
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Przyszłość Europy w zakresie gospodarczym, społecznym i politycznym/L'avenir économique, social et politique en Europe, Ed. H. Marot, Paris 1885
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proposed the creation of a European league of 18 sovereign states, with a common treasury, no internal borders and an economic union. After the
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wrote "The ocean is rough and whirling, and the currents go to two possible endings: the autocrat, or the United States of Europe". In 1867
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established in 1866 drifted away from the inclusive multinational character of the preceding German Confederation and the early
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and his ideas were largely supported by other agrarian parties of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, which were members of the
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Patel, Kiran Klaus, and Wolfram Kaiser. "Continuity and change in European cooperation during the twentieth century."
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Military unions of "Christian European powers" in the medieval and early modern period were directed against
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After the war on 19 September 1946 Churchill went further as a civilian, after leaving his office, at the
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entitled "Towards a Free and United Europe" and smuggled out of an internment camp – on the island of
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boycott of the Allied Control Council and its incapacitation, an event marking the beginning of the
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that an extension of this customs union may have become the model for a unified Europe, the ensuing
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Among those who were early advocates of a union of European nations was Hungarian Prime Minister
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Documents on the History of European Integration: Continental Plans for European Union 1939–1945
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was promulgated in November 1806 as an embargo of British goods in the interests of the French
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United States of Europe" in 1923, advocating a Europe united along communist principles.
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France, Germany and the Struggle for the War-making Natural Resources of the Rhineland
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for mutual assistance in the event of future military aggression in the aftermath of
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from 1935 to 1938. While in exile during World War II, HodĹľa published a book titled
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As part of 19th-century concerns about an ailing Europe and the threat posed by the
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The growing rift among the Four Powers became evident as a result of the rigged
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included his prediction that by the year 2000, following the defeat of German
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of farmers' parties (1923), to the centre-right International Secretariat of
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on 12 March 1947. On 4 March 1947 France and the United Kingdom signed the
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and Anglo-American colonist, proposed a European Parliament to prevent war.
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Napoleon's European Union: The Grand Empire of the United States of Europe
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the plans to establish joint institutions. This led to a decision at the
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in 1945 to include Free France as the Fourth Allied Power and to form a
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Organisations internationales et architectures européennes (1929–1939)
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contains the earliest known reference in a Latin text to "Europeans" (
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French proposal regarding the detachment of German industrial regions
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countries, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Switzerland, the
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Memorandum on the organisation of a system of European Federal Union
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looked at the devastation of war in Europe and wrote of a "European
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Polish Ministry of foreign Affairs, dual text in French and Polish.
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In the conservative reaction after Napoleon's defeat in 1815, the
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Making The New Europe: European Unity and the Second World War
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on the 27/28 August 1943, adopted a "political thesis" which,
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in 1926, and which contained 8000 members by the time of the
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were omitted from the list of proposed countries: plans or
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envisaged the idea of a European federation that he called
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European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters
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Some suggestion of a European union can be inferred from
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One of the most influential figures in this process was
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International Authority for the Ruhr (1949–1951)
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the oldest organization for European integration, the
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a member of the National Liberation Committee of the
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Belgian and Luxembourgish customs and monetary union.
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Project for bringing about perpetual peace in Europe
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Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
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Allied plans for German industry after World War II
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for the hypothetical "Federated States of Europe" (
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