‘32 former high-level politicians, EU officials and economists published a manifesto for “the European Union at the Time of the New Cold War”, calling for a central fiscal capacity for the EU, the completion of the Banking Union and Capital Markets Union, a shift to a new EU “business model” and institutional reforms.
In 1946, Churchill gave a notable speech at the University of Zurich, calling for the creation of a ‘United States of Europe’.
The Ventotene Manifesto (Italian: Manifesto di Ventotene), officially entitled For a Free and United Europe. A Draft Manifesto (Per un’Europa libera e unita. Progetto d’un manifesto), is a political statement written by Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi, and Eugenio Colorni.
In 1938, amidst the emergence of totalitarian governments in Europe, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi of Austria-Czechoslovakia, the founder of the Paneuropean Movement in 1923, reflected on the potential impact of the Paneuropean Union
In a speech on September 5, 1929, to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva, the French Prime Minister, also the Minister for Foreign Affairs, advocated for the eventual creation of a ‘federal link’ among European countries.
Year 2020 has proven certainty and stability being nothing but a kind of illusions which help us to better deal with our lives and feel more comfortable with the only constant in life: Change.