Which state/monarchy/supranational institution was most likely to unite Europe?

Which of these options was (or is) historically most likely to unite Europe?


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Continents are never united by the boot.

Well, considering that we've never seen a continent completely united (other than Australia, but that hardly counts), I challenge this statement based on lack of evidence. Continents have never been united by any other means either, so I see no reason why a boot cannot unite Europe. (Although I think a gun might be more effective. :D)
 
If european integration continues within the EU, then it is very likely to happen eventually I think.
I predict that the USE will come into being in the year 2312, 24th of December.
prove me wrong!

See, with the EU, they won't really have to ever make a bold declaration that a new nation-state has come into being. Gradually, however, the EU is already coming to do a lot of the things that nation-states do traditionally. And this is all happening without abolishing the nation-states. The task "Uniting Europe" is already being done, but it's happening without any changes to the map.
 
I like the Kaiserriech, so I think that after a CP ww1 win, it'd take decades though and be done with mostly soft power.

Eh... I don't think it'd work out, at least not as something that's just an EU clone. Germany would still need to deal with the Soviet Union... Weaker in this timeline, but powerful nonetheless. And I can't see France, let alone the UK, easily being united into part of Germany in a CP victory timeline, even given time.

I voted for Napoleon just because he's more interesting than the EU. I think he had a reasonable shot at it. Not great, certainly, but he got reasonably close considering the timeframe, the resources he had, and the resources of his enemies. Make a few battles go a little differently, have a French Trafalgar-style victory...
 
Let me sketch a basic problem which led me not to vote here.

Let's pretend for the moment there was something as a "probability" of something happening in the future, at any given point in time. The perhaps the prob of the Roman Empire to unite Europe was some odd number in the year 1 AD.
In the year 300, however, the probability was much lower, and at some point, like 500, it should have hit zero (depending on how you define identity of institutions).
So as the question refers to all times, with which value should I compare the EU, for fairness?
 
I wouldn't call Rome centralised. Less so than the EU perhaps even.
Went with EU as...well, they almost have.
 
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