The Federal Union: how a group of 1940s economists dreamt of a European Union for the working classes

Or Rosenboim, Università di Bologna On the eve of the Second World War, three Oxbridge graduates joined forces in London and wrote a pamphlet calling for the union of Britain with other democracies to avert the coming conflict. They sent the short pamphlet, titled “Federal Union”, to more than 500 opinion-makers in Britain.