Pan-European identity is the sense of personal identification with Europe
In a cultural or political sense.The concept is discussed in the context of European integration
Historically in connection with hypothetical proposals
But since the formation of the European Union (EU) in the 1990s increasingly with regard to the project of ever-increasing federalisation of the EU.The model of a pan-European union is the Carolingian Empire
Which first defined Europe as a cultural entity as the areas ruled by the Roman Catholic Church
Later known as Medieval Western Christendom.The original proposal for a Paneuropean Union was made in 1922 by Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Who defined the term pan-European as referring to this historical sense of the western and central parts of continental Europe encompassing the cultures that evolved from medieval Western Christendom instead of the modern geographic definition of the continent of Europe.Coudenhove-Kalergi saw the pan-European state as a future fifth great power
In explicit opposition to the Soviet Union
AsiaGreat Britain and the United States.