Pan-European nationalism

An ideology that treats Europe as a single nation or political community and advocates political unity grounded in a shared European identity.

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Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi: An Austrian-Japanese political thinker who founded the Pan-European Union in 1923. His interwar movement gave organized form to a Europe conceived as a political community.
Nation: A community understood as sharing a collective identity, often linked to history, culture, or political aspiration. The ideology’s claim rests on whether Europeans can constitute one nation.
European federalism: A political movement advocating a federal system that shares authority across European levels of government. It can seek European unity without claiming Europe is a single nation.
Supranationalism: A system of governance in which authority is exercised by institutions above the level of individual states. A European nation-state project would likely require authority beyond existing national governments.
European cultural identity: A sense of shared cultural belonging associated with Europe’s diverse histories, practices, and traditions. It supplies cultural material for claims that Europeans form a wider national community.
Pan-European Union: A movement founded in 1923 to promote European political unification. It was an early organization explicitly advocating a united Europe.
Civic nationalism: Nationalism that defines membership primarily through shared citizenship and political principles. It offers a civic basis for European unity distinct from ancestry or cultural homogeneity.
European integration: The process by which European states develop shared institutions, policies, and rules. Integration can advance through practical cooperation without a unified national identity.
European Parliament: The directly elected legislative institution of the European Union. It provides a partial institutional expression of political representation at European scale.
Pan-nationalism: Nationalism that seeks to unite people across several states through a claimed shared identity. It places the European project alongside other attempts to build nations across existing borders.