The Dawning Consciousness of a Common Predicament: Promoter of European Identity in the 20th C. – Dimitrije Mitrinović
The Dawning Consciousness of a Common Predicament: Promoter of European Identity in the 20th C. – Dimitrije Mitrinović

Author(s): Dušan Pajin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Summary/Abstract: This is a resume of ideas and actions of Dimitrije Mitrinovic (1887-1953), who devoted forty years (1913-1953) to promoting the idea of creating the Union of European republics (European federation). He considered that the European identity is connected with a new, cosmopolitan identity and citizenship of man. For many (in the 20’s and 30’s), this was utopianism. Nevertheless, with British co-workers, Mitrinovic organized the “New Europe Group” in London (in 1931), in order to promote this idea and platform. For him, the idea of unity and federation for Europe was the solution for economic, political and ecological issues, that will also end the history of wars.

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