<strong>A United States of Europe</strong>
"_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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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @philosophy it was Winston Churchill’s dream as well
@peterbrown @histodon @histodons @philosophy
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/
