Editing European Federalism (section)

===After World War II===

====[[File:Cball-ECSC.png]] European Economic Community and [[File:RobertSchuman.png]] Schuman Plan [[File:Cdem.png]]====
Created as the continuation of [[File:Cball-ECSC.png]] '''European Coal and Steel Community''', spearheaded by French and German [[File:Cdem.png]] [[Christian Democracy|Christian Democrats]], The [[File:Cball-EU.png]] '''European Economic Community''' was meant to bind European nations together economically, and bring their political and economic interests closer to prevent the possibility of another war between Europeans. While the EEC was far from anything resembling a federal state, it was something that Euro-federalists believed could in time evolve in a more integrated construct and someday a European Federation. One of EEC architects Jean Monnet believed that the EEC can be used as a tool for gradual centralization of political authority in Europe, justifying it with common economic interest it would gradually turn into a Federal European Republic.

====[[File:BritFash.png]] Europe a Nation====
Another Post-WW2 proponent of a united European state was a former [[File:OswaldMosley.png]] [[British Fascism|British Fascist]] leader Oswald Mosley. In his book ''The Alternative'' publicized in 1947, he argued that the traditional vision of nationalism that had been followed by the various shades of pre-war fascism had been too narrow in scope and that the post-war era required a new paradigm in which Europe would come together as a single state. Although Mosley rejected any notions for Federal Europe, instead calling for creation of a unitary European fascist republic, his idea of Europe a Nation was the first example of a far-right vision of united Europe.

====[[File:Eurocom.png]] [[Eurocommunism]] [[File:EuroSovok.png]]====
Eurocommunists were a revisionist communist movement, that said they had developed a theory and practice of social transformation more relevant for Western Europe. One of the founding fathers of the European Union, Altiero Spinelli was a prominent figure among the Eurocommunist movement. After the war, Spinelli, leading the European Federalist Movement, played an important role in the early episodes of European integration, criticising the small steps approach and the dominance of intergovernmentalism, feeling even that the chance to unite Europe had been missed as sovereign states were re-established without any common bond other than the functionalist OEEC and the largely symbolic Council of Europe. Even the European Coal and Steel Community was felt to be too sectoral. The EFM believed governments alone would never relinquish their national power without popular pressure. They advocated a European constituent assembly to draft a European Constitution.