yeeeah… black font on dark grey background, as well as super-small one, thats the way to go …
No, he did not “invent” the EU, he was a leader of one Pan-European Movement, beside of many others.
FYI, Kalergi had by far the most influence on the development of the modern EU:
‘his ideas influenced Aristide Briand through his speech in favour of a European Union in the League of Nations on 8 September 1929, as well as his famous 1930 “Memorandum on the Organisation of a Regime of European Federal Union.”’
‘The end of the World War II inaugurated a revival of pan-European hopes. In the winter of 1945, Harry S. Truman read an article in the December issue of Collier’s magazine that Coudenhove-Kalergi posted about the integration of Europe. His article impressed Truman, and it was adopted to the United States’ official policy’
‘In November 1946 and the spring of 1947, Coudenhove-Kalergi circulated an enquiry addressed to members of European parliaments. This enquiry resulted in the founding of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU), a nominally private organization that held its preliminary conference on 4–5 July at Gstaad, Switzerland, and followed it with its first full conference from 8 to 12 September. Speaking at the first EPU conference, Coudenhove-Kalergi argued that the constitution of a wide market with a stable currency was the vehicle for Europe to reconstruct its potential and take the place it deserves within the concert of Nations’
‘In 1955, he proposed the Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” as the music for the European Anthem, a suggestion that the Council of Europe took up 16 years later’
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[Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi)
[Paneuropean Union Movement (founded by Kalergi)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneuropean_Union)
yeeeah… black font on dark grey background, as well as super-small one, thats the way to go …
No, he did not “invent” the EU, he was a leader of one Pan-European Movement, beside of many others.
FYI, Kalergi had by far the most influence on the development of the modern EU:
‘his ideas influenced Aristide Briand through his speech in favour of a European Union in the League of Nations on 8 September 1929, as well as his famous 1930 “Memorandum on the Organisation of a Regime of European Federal Union.”’
(Source: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Origins_and_Development_of_the_Europ.html?id=_he0AAAAIAAJ) p.11-15
‘The end of the World War II inaugurated a revival of pan-European hopes. In the winter of 1945, Harry S. Truman read an article in the December issue of Collier’s magazine that Coudenhove-Kalergi posted about the integration of Europe. His article impressed Truman, and it was adopted to the United States’ official policy’
(Source: http://www.law.tohoku.ac.jp/~tozawa/RCK%20HP/RCKexp0.htm)
‘In November 1946 and the spring of 1947, Coudenhove-Kalergi circulated an enquiry addressed to members of European parliaments. This enquiry resulted in the founding of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU), a nominally private organization that held its preliminary conference on 4–5 July at Gstaad, Switzerland, and followed it with its first full conference from 8 to 12 September. Speaking at the first EPU conference, Coudenhove-Kalergi argued that the constitution of a wide market with a stable currency was the vehicle for Europe to reconstruct its potential and take the place it deserves within the concert of Nations’
(Source: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Struggle_for_European_Union_by_Polit.html?id=eJa0QAQiKNsC) p.537
‘In 1955, he proposed the Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” as the music for the European Anthem, a suggestion that the Council of Europe took up 16 years later’
(Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20081108214702/http://www.coe.int/t/dgal/dit/ilcd/Historical_Content/hymn/kalergi1.pdf)