Once upon a time in Europe, there was a confederation. It stretched from the Alps to the Adriatic and straddled the ancient line between Western Christendom and Byzantium.
The confederation promised an eternal end to the wars that had historically bedeviled its component peoples. It built goodwill and interdependence through a common currency and free movement of labor and capital.
Espousing peace, equality and human rights, the confederation offered a 'third way' between the callousness of American-style capitalism and the inefficiency of central planning.
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