AHC: Greater EU

With at least a POD of 1917 get every European nation to be associated with the eu in some way (szchengan zone, euro zone, etc) There can be other organizations but they must be recognizable to OTL's EU.
 
sure .. at the end of the cold war
massive marshal plan 2.0 to the east. invite them in. make them equal partners, get them involved, put them on a 7-10 year plan to join.
combined Europe invades the swiss .. done ;)
 
Honestly, Doing our best to stabilize Russia and the former eastern republics, playing honest.. ( trust.. verify .. and slowly dismantle Nato into an EU organization that does not include the US as primary command and control ) The USA would still be there .. possible as a non aligned member to counterweight the other big players, but allow cross building of ties, promote a new era of government for the east, not the oligarch mafia mess.. stabilize, promote arms reductions, finally wind down from WW II and the cold war.

snuff out the Balkan fire before it can get going.

the Russians have to give and so does the west.. plain and simple. No Yeltsin might help.. or less drinking ;)

If the Russians believe the west are being serious and are not trying to be a threat and that everyone gets to be on the same boat and playing field, I think they would join cautiously, not all at once, but over the course of a decade come to realize that the future is in a united Europe
 
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for all of Europe, the real starting point is the fall of the soviet union or last 80's right before if you can get some change in the soviet system.

the idea of EU starts in the in 1920,
Well ok.. well before that.. ever since the fall of rome.. problem is that everyone wanted it their way and to get all the spoils.
England, France, Germany, Russia, the Ottomans, Austrians.. place was a mess...

advocating the creation of a European economic union in 1920, British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote that "a Free Trade Union should be established (...) to impose no protectionist tariffs whatever against the produce of other members of the Union."[27] One of the first to imagine of a modern political union of the continent was Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, who wrote the Pan-Europa manifesto in 1923 and founded the Pan-Europa Movement.[28] His ideas influenced his contemporaries, among which then Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand. In 8 September 1929, the later gave a famous speech in favour of a European Union before the assembly of the League of Nations.

World War 1 was bloody. People new there had to be a change. it wasnt quite ready yet though. not enough died or sacrificed their ways of life into the ash heap of history.


After world war II it was time.. the treaty of rome.

it wasn't time for all of Europe as half of Europe was under the soviet yoke and its system.

so the only reasonable pod is late 80's and have the USA back off enough to be a counter balance but not the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

and yes you need a counter balance to the Russians.
 
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