Different names for the European Union

What could the supranational entity have been called?

Once, in a really good DBWI (everyone stayed in character and the world building was pretty seamless even without an OOC moments), I decided on calling the EU the "Europa Universalis", which I continue to agitate for to this day. I feel very validated because I just found out tonight that in alternate history anime series Code Geass the European superstate used to be translated as "Euro-Universe", which sounds like Europa Universalis. How did Paradox even get the name, anyway?

I mostly created this thread to promote the idea that alt-EUs could be and should be called Europa Universalis. And more medieval timelines should feature monarchs dubbed "the Crusader King."
 

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Depending on the POD, a union of European states could have been called:
  • The Latin Monetary Union
  • The United States of Europe (name supported by Churchill)
  • generic names like European Community that take different meanings in an ATL
  • Mitteleuropa (victorious Central Powers)
  • The Continental System (Napoleon victory)
It probably wouldn't have, but still might have been, called:
  • The Holy Roman Empire
  • The Greater West Eurasian Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Intermarium
It definitely wouldn't have been called:
  • The Holier Romaner Empire
 
In an ATL where Esperanto catches on (it would be a logical language for the EU) you would have La Eŭropa Unio (or La Eŭropa Federacio).
 
In Tom Clancy's Endwar they use the European Federation. I've kind of liked it as a name.
 
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United European Provinces ;)
Europact
Entente Europeana
European Alliance
European League
EuroBond

or just Europa
 
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What it really is:
1. Germano-Belgian Empire.
2. The Anti-Individual League
3. European Anti-Democracy League
4. I've Used League Twice in a Row - Not Proud
5. The Fourth Reich
6. What The HRE Wanted To Be
7. The Federation of Post-Humanist European States or FPHES - probably pronounced "Ffess"
8. The Maastricht Community
9. Let's Rob the English plc.
10. The Lisbon League/Community/Union
You may be able to guess how I feel about this issue. Just remember: when talking about what to call the EU, keep in mind that you are naming a very dangerous organisation - headed by a very dangerous group of people. If this thread is meant to be non-political, very sorry.
 
You may be able to guess how I feel about this issue. Just remember: when talking about what to call the EU, keep in mind that you are naming a very dangerous organisation - headed by a very dangerous group of people. If this thread is meant to be non-political, very sorry.
ah sarcasm at its finest
 
I'm partial to the European Community, as a rather natural progression from its predecessor, the European Economic Community.
This is definitely my favorite.

The EU has its origin in the European Coal and Steel Community, established in 1951 with the goal of integrating the French and German economies so much that war would be effectively impossible (also: ensuring French access to Ruhr coal and steel). It was then supplemented (and then superceded) by the more general European Economic Community, until it got subsumed into the EU (which also replaced a few other pan-European treaties). Get things like EURATOM to be established within the EEC instead of in parallel, and it could easily never be replaced by the EU.

Possibly, such an organization could do all of the modern EU stuff except without a military (which is mostly covered by NATO anyway, to be honest) and without calls for "ever closer union", which might keep various nationalists from getting antsy.
 
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