Your task is to get such a movement going after WWII that develops a pan-European state.
Your task is to get such a movement going after WWII that develops a pan-European state.
Your task is to get such a movement going after WWII that develops a pan-European state.
No way in hell, unless you have the Nazis win the war instead.
The Nazis did not really advocate Pan-Europeanism.
A number of resistance movements did though...
A more threatening USSR?
Perhap, if coupled with a less helpful Washington.
The Nazis did not really advocate Pan-Europeanism.
To have a pan-european nationalism,you need many people to feel european. Which was not the case.
All this is ASB.
It's been close to 90 years that there has been a self-named european movement that wanted to build a United States of Europe. And it has not created any begining of feeling of being a european nation in a significant amount of people's minds.
It won't and It probably never will because technologies and cultural realities favourable the conservation of curent national identities and even the emerging of micro/regional identities.
To have a pan-european nationalism,you need many people to feel european. Which was not the case.
All this is ASB.
It's been close to 90 years that there has been a self-named european movement that wanted to build a United States of Europe. And it has not created any begining of feeling of being a european nation in a significant amount of people's minds.
It won't and It probably never will because technologies and cultural realities favourable the conservation of curent national identities and even the emerging of micro/regional identities.
I've been thinking what if the process of intergovernmental-lization wasn't as stalled as it was in OTL? France was supranational which did hamper the unification process.
You need to have de Gaulle end up dying or incapacitated somehow...this means that he can't be called back, which led to the Fourth Republic being replaced by the Fifth Republic. Without that, this means that the Fourth Republic would last longer and possibly undergo reforms, and they would only have to deal with Algeria...
However, this could all go down the crapper and end up worse than OTL...
Plan G lurks in the background...
And BTW, France was more supportive of intergovernmental/confederal EU, rather than supranational/federal...
How would it go bad?
Because of the pied-noirs ("Algerie francaise")...
Also, there's Britain's Plan G, which was this idea of a European FTA of 17 countries that the "Inner 6" (founding members of the ECSC and EEC-France, [West] Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands) saw as an attempt to sabotage the EEC, ultimately was scuttled by de Gaulle when he came to power and said that he would uphold the Treaty of Rome, contrary to expectations...
(Yep, this means that de Gaulle semi-inadvertently ensured that the EU would exist).