Pan-Europa Paperback – December 6, 2019

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi was one of the thinkers of a utopian ideal, a Pan-Europa, a European Union as a cultural, economic, political community of brother countries to face the challenges of the world of the future and overcome the internal and external problems of the past.He understood clearly the dynamics and the inertia of history and for that reason could predict future events, the second World War as direct consequence from the Treaty of Versailles, Russia as the new force in Europe to be reckon, the future economic wars coming from America and Asia.But any utopian dream has many unrealistic elements and ideas that generally goes against its realization and this is also the case for Pan-Europa. Misplaced faults, misplaced role models, misinterpretation of historical events and movements of the past, a history written by the winners and interpreted by the naïve.Today after many years after the creation of the European Union it is facing the same problems that Coudenhove-Kalergi critiqued as European historical problems, a European Empire that oppresses people, lack of freedom, economic wars, cultural dissolution, animosity between neighboring countries, problematic pacts or treaties, decadence in general and nationalism. Nationalism was viewed by Coudenhove-Kalergi as the problem for the union of Europe but ironically now a new nationalism is growing in Europe as a promise for the protection of the cultural identity of Europe, of the Roman-Hellenic and Christian roots, of science, of philosophy and of the human knowledge in every human field as specific identity roots of the European peoples as well understood by him.“The two polarities of the European civilization are the Hellenic individualism and the Christian socialism”.“The European civilization is by nature pragmatic and rationalist, aspires to achieve with all its strength reasonable objectives. Its best contribution is the science and the practical application of this technique, to chemistry and to medicine. In this, it advantages by far to all the rest of civilizations that existed until now”.“Thanks to its strong activity, because of its Nordic character, the European civilization dominates around the entire world, thus, whereas the other civilizations are in decadence, the European advances triumphant”.“The whole European question finishes in the Russian problem. The main objective of the European policy must be to prevent the Russian invasion. To prevent it, there is only one way: the European union”.“However, Europe could find itself in such favorable situation like the United States, because is populated by the same race, has approximately the same weather and is ruled by the same democratic principle”.“Every civilized person must fight for the nation to be converted tomorrow in a private thing of each one, as it is today the religion. The future separation between nation, cultural entity, and State, political entity, will be a cultural action so important as the separation between Church and State. The concept of “National State” will fall in disuse the same that the one of State Church and will withdraw before the principle: The free nation in the free State.” Read more