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...Churchill launched his movement for a United Europe, Count Richard Couden-hove-Kalergi, a tireless Pan-Europist from the 1920s, summoned a group of European parliamentarians to discuss political unity, the European Union of Federalists urged Europe to "federate now." and in 1949 most of these groups came together to establish the Council of Europe. Skeptics refused to believe that anything practical would ever come of these idealistic and largely futile efforts. And yet the power of the ideal itself would not fade. Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga expressed it better than anyone else...
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