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A United States of Europe

A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?

https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-recover-the-radical-vision-of-a-free-and-united-europe

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credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Page URL: https://archive.org/details/dr_europe-00224068

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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @philosophy it was Winston Churchill’s dream as well

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After the Second World War, Churchill became the greatest pioneer of the European ideal. “If I were 10 years younger,” he told his wife, “I might be the first President of the United States of Europe.”

Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-173/churchills-europe/

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