It began with the publishing of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi's manifesto Paneuropa (1923), which presented the idea of a unified European State.

Since 2004, the President of the Union is Alain Terrenoire, former Member of Parliament in France and MEP and Director of the French Paneuropa-Union.

[citation needed] As French prime minister and follower of the Paneuropean Union Aristide Briand delivered a widely recognized speech at the League of Nations in Geneva on 5 September 1929 for a federal Europe to secure Europe and settle the historic Franco-German enmity.

[5] Winston Churchill lauded the movement's work for a unified Europe prior to the war in his famous Zurich speech in 1946.

[8] The organisation believes in a strong, politically and militarily, united Europe while supporting humanist and Christian values.