EU name in ATL w/ Surviving USSR

Assuming European integration continued roughly the same as OTL in an ATL where the USSR and its eastern bloc survived into the 90s, would the EC still opt to become the European 'Union,' or would it choose something else that didnt sound too similar to the communist giant next door?
 
Assuming European integration continued roughly the same as OTL in an ATL where the USSR and its eastern bloc survived into the 90s, would the EC still opt to become the European 'Union,' or would it choose something else that didnt sound too similar to the communist giant next door?

I don't know if people really associate nations or organizations with each other, based on one word in the name. Did any East Bloc or anti-American third world country ever worry, for example, that United Nations sounded too close to United States?

Okay, MAYBE if it got to the point where the EU was regarded as one big nation state(we're talking major early-90s fantasizing here), and on a map you see "European Union" and "Soviet Union" in very close proximity to one another, it might be a little suggestive. But even then, I don't think most people would get too worked up about it.
 
Im just not too sure one way or another. Does anyone else have any evidence why the Union name would or wouldnt matter, and any plausible or even OTL considered alternate names
 
In Jon Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar written in the late 60s, it was called Common Europe, but in that future, like our present, the USSR was defunct for a while but trying to come back and China was the other superpower.
 
Community doesnt sound "strong" enough. Concert makes one think of the reactionary concert of vienna. Confederation is similar to the confederacy. Theres gotta be something out there though!
 
You guys are aware that there was a West-European Union. So there is no need for an alternative to union.
If you want one: European Commonwealth, European Confederation, Pan-Europa, European League.
 
Surely the obvious alternative to union for an integrated european group is European Federation
 
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