During the 1920’s, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi is one of the first to claim the necessity for European countries to unite in order to prevent and to face a new and much more demolishing war, and the Russian threat of communism. His ideas would reveal themselves to be the basis of the European Union. Indeed, Kalergi was already seeking an entire co-operation between European nations, by linking their natural resources as coal and steel, and by creating a customs union...
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His ideas would reveal themselves to be the basis of the European Union. Indeed, Kalergi was already seeking an entire co-operation between European nations, by linking their natural resources as coal and steel, and by creating a customs union. Furthermore, he was looking to create a kind of “European confederation”, endowed with common institutions, citizenship and currency, and at the same time respecting national sovereignty...
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