{"id":1485,"date":"2014-02-04T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/?page_id=1485"},"modified":"2020-05-05T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T07:34:16","slug":"united-europe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/united-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"A United Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Europafahne-mit-Goldrahmen.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The idea of a united Europe is not a recent one: In the course of time, various thinkers, philosophers, writers and politicians have described their vision of a common future for the continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a title=\"William Penn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/united-europe\/william-penn\/\">William Penn<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, for example, proposed the creation of a \u201cCouncil of Europe\u201d in order to establish lasting peace. Benjamin Franklin drew up a proposal for a European constitution. George Washington, Charles Mackay, Victor Hugo, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi spoke of the &#8220;United States of Europe&#8221;. Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi coined the term \u201ePan-Europe\u201c, and &#8220;United Europe&#8221; is still is one of the keywords used by modern-times European movements.<\/p>\n<p>After the catastrophe of the Second World War, Europe had to rebuild itself. Following the guidance of pioneers like <strong><em><a title=\"Winston Churchill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/united-europe\/winston-churchill\/\">Winston Churchill<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><a title=\"Konrad Adenauer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/united-europe\/konrad-adenauer\/\">Konrad Adenauer<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Robert Schuman, Paul-Henri Spaak, Alcide de Gasperi and Ernest Bevin, it did so on the basis of <strong><em><a title=\"Core Values\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/core-values\/\">human rights, democracy and the rule of law<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The foundation of the <strong><em><a title=\"Council of Europe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on May 5th 1949 was the first step on this continuing path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a united Europe is not a recent one: In the course of time, various thinkers, philosophers, writers and politicians have described their vision of a common future for the continent. William Penn, for example, proposed the creation of a \u201cCouncil of Europe\u201d in order to establish lasting peace. Benjamin Franklin drew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1417,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}