Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Plan for “Paneuropa”

A plan for a Pan-European Pact in favor of creating a European federation is published in Berlin by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi.

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (Austrian, born in 1894 – died in 1972) was a pioneer of European integration. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and disillusioned by the world order following World War I, he dedicated his entire life to his vision of “Paneuropa,” a movement for a united Europe that began in the early 1920s.

Coudenhove-Kalergi was honored with the first Charlemagne Prize (1950). Additionally, he proposed Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as the European anthem.