“Federarsi o perire”. Il contributo britannico al federalismo europeo

Abstract

Great Britain had been entrenched behind the myth of a golden isolation which seemed destined to outlive the deep changes in the geopolitical balance of Europe between 19th century and 20th century. For this reason, Great Britain has always been considered unconnected with the political project of a European union. However, it was the British political philosophy itself that made a significant contribution to the development of the pro-European thinking, helping to create a broad consent in favor of a European federation. The paper intends to examine the relationship between Britain and the cause of European integration and to investigate, with a peculiar attention, the case of Federal Union – the first political movement in British history to ever advocate the cause of a union of European democracies between 1938 and 1940.

Keywords

• Great Britain has always been considered unconnected with the political project of a European union. However
• it was the British political philosophy itself that made a significant contribution to the development of the pro-European thinking
• helping to create a broad consent in favor of a European federation. The paper intends to examine the relationship between Britain and the cause of European integration and to investigate
• with a peculiar attention
• Europeanism
• Federalism
• Federal Union
• Great Britain
• United States of Europe
• europeismo
• federalismo
• Gran Bretagna
• Stati Uniti d’Europa