History of uniting Europe

From George of Poděbrady to Pan-Europa and Churchill.

• Who proposed a United States of Europe?

  Victor Hugo coined the famous phrase in 1849, but the relay runs from a Czech king in 1464 through Kant and Churchill to the EU’s founders.

• The Czech king who tried to unite Europe – in 1464

  A parliament of nations, majority voting and a common defense – proposed from Prague in 1464. The story of Europe’s first unification plan and why it failed.

• Did Churchill want a United States of Europe?

  Zurich, 19 September 1946: Churchill calls for ’a kind of United States of Europe’ – with Britain outside it. What he actually said and why it still stings.

• What was Pan-Europa – and what’s the truth about the ’Kalergi plan’?

  Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the first movement for European union in 1923. The ’Kalergi plan’ is a neo-Nazi fabrication – here are the facts and the receipts.

• What is the Kalergi plan?

  The “Kalergi plan” is a far-right conspiracy theory. Where it comes from, what Coudenhove-Kalergi actually wrote in 1925 and how the distortion works.