What would be the best way to create a European Federation?

More importantly what form should said federation take? Basically what are the best ideas to create a functioning federal European State from the Russian border to the Atlantic. It must be democratic, though monarchies, post 1900, can survive and it must have features common to Federal states. I don't know anything else, so I'm leaving it to you much more learned people.
 
Basically impossible, the social, economic and cultural differences are too great. You could have an India style outsider come in and forcibly unify the place and then get kicked out leaving a unified state behind but that's about it. If you are willing to drop the Democratic bit then the Soviet Union offers some possibilities as does Nazi Germany.
 
I have considered this question recently.
I think that perhaps a bloodier WWII, a more threatening USSR and a more distanced USA could push the western European countries into each others arms. I guess it depends on your definition of "Russian border."

Alternatively, for a pre-1900 option, I've seen a few Napoleonic victory scenarios thrown around, though I can't recall them all that well.
 
Hmm, If the USSR could somehow be stopped short of Berlin, I don't know how that could be done, maybe a Kursk that sucks for all involved. It would definitely leave the Soviet leadership with 'Unfinished Business' in the east, thought it also entails the Western Democracies to be far less damaged to stand on their own by 1945, which is off course impossible.

Maybe if WW1 ended with a fairer face to Germany, no forced removal of the Monarchy but perhaps an understanding that will take steps to divest itself of Power. Thought there are issues here that would require much more work.
 
An EF is possibly but not as big as you want. You have to limit the size of an EC/EU, expansion is not always for the better.

An EF can be formed of the Inner Six fairly easily and be a prominant international force.
 
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