AHC: Federated Europe by 2000

You challenge is to create a truly united federation of Euopean nations by the year 2000 that must possess

A) A united military
B) A currency which is controlled exclusively by a single agency
C) A unified government of varing complexity with a judiciary, executive, and legislative branch
D) At least the territorial equivalent of the Inner Six
 
how about some anti-hitler coup (western Friendly) post barbarossa, which turns into an anti-bolshevik alliance, mostly from eastern european nations, but supported by the nordics at first, then as the Stalinist threat grows, more join in. Maybe something happenes in the UK and US keeping them from the fighting at first. Or have the Sovjets win the Sovjet-Polish war in 1920
 
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WW1 fizzles out, Russia collapses and goes nutty after a decade or so of chaos, Mitteleuropa eyes the Slavic hordes and gets worried, the UK stand alone and goes fascist, mostly ignored as the rest of Europe fights the Great Eastern War in the late '40s. One this is over some bits of the former Russian Empire join Europa (as buffers initially) and the whole bunch keep on the path to federalisation in the face of British fascism, the rise of Japan and the utter chaos that is China.
 
Have the French National Assembly go the other way in 1954 over the vote whether to create the European Defence Community. It stilted political growth for years.
 
I understand the urge to wank post-Brexit. But other than a), this is OTL. The euro satisfies b); the entire complex of the Commission, the European Parliament, arbitration processes for disputes between member states, and the Council of Europe for human rights issues, satisfies c); and d) consists of the entire Eurogroup, much larger than the original six.

I suspect what you're actually looking for is fiscal authority. The EU as it is today has very little fiscal authority: nearly all spending is controlled by member states. It has a strong regulatory authority, even on non-members like Norway and Switzerland (and probably whatever remains of Britain), and is a united trade bloc, with a lot of the other governance issues coming from the needs of a modern trade bloc to prevent protectionism-by-internal-regulations.
 
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