Abstract

This article analyzes the significance of «United Europe». Also, the main stages of the development of a united Europe, from the Middle Ages to the New Age, which included both idealistic plans of the European Confederation, and more realistic ones, such as the United States of Europe, were considered. The main factors that guided contemporary politicians and cultures were described. The European Union today – is an economic entity that unites 28 European countries, took seventh place in the world by area and has more than 500 million. people. This community, united by a common values, common history and interests. This job created in order to understand how was the unification of Europe, to consider what influenced the development of the idea of «United Europe» and read the key project of creating a supranational formation in Europe. The word «Europe» is a stumbling block for grouping political rivals use it quite differently. Those who favor the idea of a future European federation, tend to consider «Europe» as a special cultural field with common historical experiences and common civilization. They believe that a united Europe would mean the end of a long historical process, the final elimination of outdated political geography, the prevailing economic, social and cultural conditions XVIII-XIX centuries. For their opponents, ie those concerns to the European Federation of critical and incredulous, the word «Europe» – appears to refer to the label of the EU institutions, depicted centralizing, inflexible, wasteful and corrupt. From their perspective, European unity is a bureaucratic nightmare, imposing new European system of small numbers elite that seeks to overcome a variety of cherished national traditions and cultures. The idea of a united Europe has a centuries-old tradition. The first factor that contributed to the idea of political and spiritual unity of the peoples of Europe has belief, and if more specifically, the Roman Catholic Church, which for centuries has assumed the role of chief integrator of European unity. But due to the rapid development of national and state trends, the rapid growth of cities and their development in science and secular culture promoted that in the XII–XV centuries. influence of the church began to plummet, but despite this, Christianity itself was one of the origins of humanist and pacifist interpretation of the future European unity.